Engineering Manager, Alarms & Real-Time Incident Platform

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Verkada is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Alarms team. You will own the system that analyzes incidents after an alarm fires, coordinating AI-driven automation with human judgment to protect people and spaces at scale.

You will define autonomous actions, manage the real-time workflow engine, and partner with product and operators to extend the alarm response across Verkada’s platform. Candidates should bring 8+ years in software and 2+ years leading teams.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead and scale engineering teams.
• Experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems.
• Experience with real-time or high-availability systems.
• Collaborates closely with product management to drive outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define where AI acts autonomously and where a human decides, with product and monitoring ops.
• Own the real-time workflow engine and the vision-language SOP adaptation pipeline.
• Set and maintain a reliability bar for a system with no acceptable quiet failure mode.
• Hire and grow the team.
• Partner with the PM on the roadmap and with operators who use monitoring tools daily.
• Collaborate across product teams to extend the response layer into Verkada platform.

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Real-time systems

Product collaboration

Job description

Verkada is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Alarms team. You will own the system that analyzes incidents after an alarm fires, coordinating AI-driven automation with human judgment to protect people and spaces at scale.

You will define autonomous actions, manage the real-time workflow engine, and partner with product and operators to extend the alarm response across Verkada’s platform. Candidates should bring 8+ years in software and 2+ years leading teams.