Principal Architect, AI Ecosystem & Partner Integrations

Verkada; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 265,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs (medical, vision,

Dental coverage

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Mental health support

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Professional development stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy meals provided

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada is hiring a Principal Architect to define architecture, standards, and development patterns for third-party integrations into the Verkada platform.

The role partners with Product and Field leadership to align integration work with customer needs, product direction, and field execution, delivering scalable, valuable solutions for customers and partners.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in building API level integrations between companies.
• Excellent communication and customer/partner facing skills.
• Ability to work with many internal and external parties in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience organizing how integrations are supported after delivery to customers.
• Passion for technology, education and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical architecture and guidance for third-party integrations.
• Build hello world demonstrations and reference examples for partners and field teams.
• Create reusable software, API wrappers, integration templates and sample code for developers.
• Establish and maintain technical standards for partner integration development.
• Collaborate with partners to identify API gaps and opportunities to improve developer experience.
• Translate integration learnings into product enhancements and roadmap feedback.
• Validate designs and software to ensure efficiency and scalability.
• Promote reusable integration patterns across partners and field teams.
• Improve patterns, tooling, API usability and field-ready examples for faster integration.
• Create technical presentations and enablement materials for internal and partner audiences.

Skills

API integrations

Communication

Partner facing

cross-functional collaboration

Adaptability

Technology passion

Tools

APIs

Developer tooling

Job description

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We've got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform's impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that's alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We're rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

We are looking to hire a Principal Architect, AI Ecosystem & Partner Integrations to define the technical architecture, integration patterns, and development standards for third-party integrations into the Verkada platform.

This role will work closely with the broader Partner Integrations team to support and maintain strong technical relationships with each integration partner. The Principal Architect will help ensure partner integrations are well-designed, stable, secure, supportable, and continuously validated as both Verkada and partner platforms evolve.

A key responsibility will be establishing the technical standards and best practices used across Verkada's partner integration ecosystem. This includes source control standards, code review practices, API usage guidelines, documentation expectations, security practices, reusable design patterns, testing requirements, and overall development best practices. The Principal Architect will also help drive these standards throughout the Field organization so customer-facing technical teams are building consistent, supportable, and scalable solutions.

This role will create the tools, frameworks, and reference architectures that make it easier for partners and field teams to build with Verkada. This includes developer toolkits, API wrappers, sample code, validation automation, integration templates, reference architectures, and "art of the possible" demos that help partners move from concept to MVP quickly while giving the Field practical examples they can use with customers.

The Principal Architect will also work closely with Product and Field leadership to ensure external partner efforts are aligned to customer needs, product direction, support readiness, and field execution. The goal is to ensure partner integrations are not only technically sound, but also valuable to customers, deployable by the field, and trusted by Verkada and its partners.

This role will be a senior technical leader within the AI Ecosystem & Partner Innovation function, helping turn Verkada's integration efforts into a scalable ecosystem strategy that drives customer value, partner innovation, field adoption, and platform differentiation.

What You'll Do

• Provide senior technical architecture and guidance for third-party integrations into the Verkada platform, helping partners and internal teams design integrations that are stable, scalable, secure, and supportable.
• Build "hello world" demonstrations, reference applications, and "art of the possible" examples that partners and Verkada SEs can use to showcase what is possible with Verkada APIs and AI-enabled workflows.
• Create reusable software, API wrappers, integration templates, sample code, and developer resources that simplify integration work for partners, targeted customers, and the Verkada Field.
• Establish and maintain technical standards for partner integration development, including source control practices, code review expectations, API usage guidelines, documentation requirements, testing standards, and development best practices.
• Work closely with integration partners to identify API gaps, integration friction, scalability concerns, and opportunities to improve the developer experience.
• Partner with Product teams to translate integration learnings into product enhancements, API improvements, roadmap feedback, and more scalable integration patterns.
• Own technical validation of partner integration designs and software, where appropriate, to ensure integrations are efficient, reliable, and do not create unnecessary stress on API transaction rates or platform performance.
• Drive adoption of reusable integration patterns and coding standards across partners, Partner Integrations, and the Verkada Field community.
• Help make Verkada the easiest physical security platform for third parties to integrate with by improving technical patterns, partner tooling, API usability, and field-ready examples.
• Build technical presentations and enablement materials that explain the value, use cases, architecture, differentiation, and technical operation of each integration for consumption by the Verkada Field and partners.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of experience in building API level integrations between companies
• Previous experience building and managing these integrations as well as organizing how integrations are supported once delivered to customers
• Excellent communication and Customer Facing/Partner Facing skills to ensure that all work supports the larger Verkada goals
• Ability to work with many internal and external parties at the same time in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a strong sense of accountability and adaptability.
• Passion for technology, education, and continuous improvement.

US Employee Benefits

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
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$265,000 — $330,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

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