Software Engineering Intern, Backend - Fall 2024

Overview

Verkada is looking for software engineering interns to join our team for an exciting and challenging internship. We are seeking interns who will thrive in a startup culture working alongside teammates to launch products that will be utilized by customers across the globe. As an intern working with the Backend Engineering team, you will have opportunities to work across the full software stack and collaborate cross-functionally to build the latest iterations of Verkada’s flagship software enabling our best-in-class security systems.

Learn more about Verkada from one of our interns - Gary Ye from University of Waterloo!

Responsibilities:
Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from 100s of thousands of devices deployed around the world
Work with high concurrency key-value storage systems (Redis, DynamoDB)
Work with Postgres relational databases
Work with logging and message passing technologies like Kafka and SQS
Deploy services via Terraform and Kubernetes
Develop large scale systems to interact with and configure products remotely.
Define and improve low-latency, high-throughput, high-reliability microservice architectures
Design and develop features incorporating cutting edge computer vision
Design clean APIs and implement them using Python and/or Go

Requirements:
Ability to work at Verkada HQ during fall 2024
Actively pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study
Graduating by June 2025
Prior internship experience developing and launching products
Familiar with: Python or Golang, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, AWS, Docker, etc.
Comfortable working in an agile team software development environment
Familiar with REST APIs and Linux servers are a plus