Senior Engineering Manager, Business Systems

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Professional development

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to scale an established team and balance new product builds with resilience. The role emphasizes reliability and high uptime for distributed financial systems, with Netsuite knowledge a bonus.

You will partner with product managers and GTM teams to drive initiatives and roadmap future capabilities. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering with strong leadership, plus hands-on experience in Python or Go and backend development.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience managing and mentoring engineers
• 10+ years in software engineering with leadership
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Strong Agile project management and delivery skills
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication
• Experience with Python or Go and backend development
• Ability to spot gaps between process and tools

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and set technical vision for reliability, scalability, and availability of global infrastructure
• Manage cross-functional collaboration with orders, supply chain, finance, and GTM teams to drive initiatives
• Mentor engineers on architecture and latency considerations
• Collaborate with other orgs to build future roadmaps alongside evolving business processes
• Lead recruitment, mentoring, and leadership across the team

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Python

Go

Agile

Cross-functional collaboration

Backend development

Education

B.S./B.E. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Netsuite

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 for a seasoned engineering manager to scale up an established team. This role requires balancing out new product/capability builds with an emphasis on resilience and reliability. Expertise in distributed/financial systems that require high uptime is essential, knowledge around finance systems such as Netsuite is a bonus. The team owns a partner facing product and will require collaboration with product managers as well as go to market teams.

What You'll Do

• Provide strategic direction and set up technical vision to raise our bar on reliability, scalability, and availability of our global infrastructure.
• Manage cross-functional collaboration with orders, supply chain, finance and other GTM teams to initiate, drive critical business initiatives and deliver with high quality
• Mentoring engineers on good architecture choices (tech spec reviews) as well as balancing out stakeholder requirements on latency.
• Work with different organizations to build future roadmap alongside evolving business processes.
• Build and lead the team through effective recruitment, mentoring, and leadership.

What You Bring

• 4+ years of experience in managing, leading, and inspiring a team of engineers, including hiring, retaining, and managing performance.
• 10+ years of work experience in a software engineering role, with proven technical leadership skills and expertise in designing scalable, reliable, and efficient solutions.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Ability to spot gaps between process and tools, and a strong commitment to close them.
• Proficient in agile team software development and strong project management, delivering complex projects within defined timelines and resource constraints.
• Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams, communicating effectively, and aligning efforts to achieve common goals.
• Experience with Python or Go, and familiarity with backend development flow, including server-side framework and database system.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform
• Experience with Netsuite (or any other ERP)
• Experience building long term roadmaps and presenting to Executives.
• Hands‑on leadership experience managing platform teams in a dynamic, high-growth environment.
• Experience implementing scalable and reliable solutions using modern cloud and DevOps practices.

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

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

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

$200,000 — $350,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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