Senior/Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer — Developer Tools

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) match

HSA

FSA

Mental health support

Parental leave

Paid holidays

PTO

Development stipend

Wellness benefits

Healthy meals

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a senior software engineer for the Developer AI team at our San Mateo HQ. You will architect AI infrastructure, scale asynchronous agent workflows, and build evaluation frameworks used across Verkada engineering.

This role directly impacts every engineer, aligning with security and product teams to deliver robust, scalable AI tooling. The position emphasizes in-office collaboration, cross-team work, and leadership in a fast-growing environment where developer productivity

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Production systems experience, including agentic or automation-heavy workflows.
• Strong hands-on coding in Go and Python.
• Experience building systems that interact with APIs and external services.
• Ability to define metrics and evaluate system performance rigorously.

Responsibilities

• Make every engineer at Verkada faster with AI infrastructure.
• Design systems that run AI agents asynchronously, balancing security, cost, and usability.
• Help define the Developer AI roadmap and lead planning.
• Create evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance.
• Partner with security, product, and other infra teams to launch and support services.
• Document and teach AI best practices to engineers across the company.
• Help with growing the team.

Skills

Production systems

Agentic workflows

Monorepo experience

Developer productivity

API integration

Tools

Go

Python

Job description

Verkada is seeking a senior software engineer for the Developer AI team at our San Mateo HQ. You will architect AI infrastructure, scale asynchronous agent workflows, and build evaluation frameworks used across Verkada engineering.

This role directly impacts every engineer, aligning with security and product teams to deliver robust, scalable AI tooling. The position emphasizes in-office collaboration, cross-team work, and leadership in a fast-growing environment where developer productivity