About the RoleThe Streaming team owns the full-stack infrastructure powering the video experience for over 1.4M Verkada cameras. We take on complex streaming challenges to deliver live and recorded video with unmatched speed, reliability, and security. By continually advancing our technology, we ensure that every frame-whether live or months old-is always available instantly, seamlessly, and securely.
As a
Frontend Engineer (Video Streaming), your work will directly shape how millions of people rely on video every day to stay safe. You'll own the web frontend streaming experience, ensuring that videos play seamlessly with industry-leading reliability and security. At the same time, you'll help simplify our streaming stack and ship features like History Player Search.
What You'll Do- Lead development of core frontend features across our dashboard, video playback, and device management experiences.
- Partner with designers and product managers to bring intuitive, high-polish user experiences to life.
- Drive technical decisions around architecture, frameworks, performance, and best practices.
- Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate backend, infrastructure and cross-functional teams e.g. design/product to deliver efficient, scalable and delightful user experiences.
- Continuously improve UI performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
What You Bring- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience building and shipping production web applications.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks such as React.
- Solid understanding of web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, DOM APIs, browser performance, accessibility).
- Experience building scalable, maintainable frontend architectures.
- Passion for great design, usability, and delivering customer-delighting products.
- Bonus: experience with video streaming, codecs like H.264, real-time data, or playback technologies like WebCodecs.
US Employee BenefitsVerkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Additional Information- We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.
Annual Pay RangeAt Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Estimated Annual Pay Range
$175,000-$275,000 USD
