Engineering Manager, Spatial Platform & Maps

Verkada Inc.; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Vision & Dental

HSA/FSA

Mental health

Parental leave

Holidays

Wellness benefits

Lunches

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a world-class technical leader to found and scale the Atlas team, building a Spatial Platform that powers eight+ product lines. You will lead zero-to-one execution, architecting a modular SDK-driven system and setting the standards for a collaborative editing pipeline.

The role combines hands-on engineering for high-performance graphics and ML-driven data pipelines with hiring and mentoring a small team, shaping culture and RFC processes across Product EMs.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping zero-to-one platform builds.
• Ability to negotiate technical boundaries across teams.
• Proficient in frontend architectures and graphics performance trade-offs.
• Experience building scalable data pipelines and applying ML.

Responsibilities

• Lead V1 of Spatial System and image pipeline; set technical standards.
• Design modular, plugin-based architecture; define SDKs and APIs for multiple teams.
• Oversee data ingestion of blueprints, CAD files, and imagery into vector data using ML.
• Build and mentor the Atlas team (4–6 engineers) and establish RFC processes.

Skills

Execution bias

Strategic communication

UI depth

Data pipeline

ML maturity

Tools

React

WebGL/WebGPU

Swift

Kotlin

Job description

Verkada is seeking a world-class technical leader to found and scale the Atlas team, building a Spatial Platform that powers eight+ product lines. You will lead zero-to-one execution, architecting a modular SDK-driven system and setting the standards for a collaborative editing pipeline.

The role combines hands-on engineering for high-performance graphics and ML-driven data pipelines with hiring and mentoring a small team, shaping culture and RFC processes across Product EMs.