Engineering Manager, Real-Time AI Alarm Systems

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Mental health support

Parental leave

Job summary

Verkada, a security tech company, is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Alarms team. You will own the incident response platform that analyzes real-time sensor data, coordinates actions, and scales with enterprise demand.

You will lead engineers, shape the roadmap with product and operations, and ensure high availability and accuracy of alarm processing across deployments. This role requires onsite work at Verkada HQ in San Mateo.

Qualifications

• 2+ years leading, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define where AI acts autonomously and where a human decides, in partnership with the product and our monitoring operations team.
• Own the real-time workflow engine that models response actions after an alarm is triggered, and the vision-language pipeline that adapts SOPs mid-incident.
• Set and hold the 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 the operators who use the monitoring tools daily.
• Work across product teams to extend the response layer into the rest of the Verkada platform.

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

Real-time systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Verkada, a security tech company, is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Alarms team. You will own the incident response platform that analyzes real-time sensor data, coordinates actions, and scales with enterprise demand.

You will lead engineers, shape the roadmap with product and operations, and ensure high availability and accuracy of alarm processing across deployments. This role requires onsite work at Verkada HQ in San Mateo.