Senior Frontend Engineer - Streaming

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100 companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.

Overview

Verkada is the leading cloud-managed physical security platform, uniting hardware, software, and AI to deliver enterprise-scale security and insights. At the core of our mission is video—powering everything from real-time monitoring to historical playback for tens of thousands of organizations worldwide.

The 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

About You

• 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.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

Why Join Us

• Build the video streaming backbone of one of the fastest-growing companies in physical security.
• Tackle some of the most challenging and rewarding problems at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time data, and multimedia.
• Collaborate with top-tier engineers and see your work make an immediate impact on products trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide.
• Join a company with proven product–market fit—enjoy the speed, ownership, and impact of a startup, with the stability of a healthy, scaling business.
• Grow a career at a place that values innovation, technical excellence, and end-to-end ownership.
• We support global talent: Verkada sponsors employment visas and can assume existing sponsorships. If you receive an offer, we’ll make every reasonable effort to secure the visa.

Verkada 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
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

• 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.

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