Engineering Manager, Real-Time AI Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

HSA/FSA

Mental health support

Paid holidays and flexible PTO

Job summary

Verkada is hiring an Engineering Manager for the Alarms team, owning the real-time response system that analyzes incidents from alarm events using video, audio, and sensor data. You will lead a cross-functional group spanning incident experience, monitoring software, and integrations to emergency dispatch.

You will define autonomous actions, drive reliability, and partner with product managers and operators to scale the Verkada platform globally.

Qualifications

• 2+ years leading and scaling engineering teams.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems.
• Experience with real-time or high-availability systems where latency and uptime carry consequences.
• Proven ability to drive product outcomes through close collaboration with product management.

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

People leadership

Distributed systems

Real-time systems

Product collaboration

Job description

Verkada is hiring an Engineering Manager for the Alarms team, owning the real-time response system that analyzes incidents from alarm events using video, audio, and sensor data. You will lead a cross-functional group spanning incident experience, monitoring software, and integrations to emergency dispatch.

You will define autonomous actions, drive reliability, and partner with product managers and operators to scale the Verkada platform globally.