Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

On-site dining or meals provided

Commuter benefits

Professional development support

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help architect, design, and build scalable infrastructure for millions of devices. You will lead cross-team efforts, mentor peers, and shape engineering best practices across the company.

Onsite at Verkada's HQ in San Mateo, CA, you will work on cost-efficient services handling terabytes of video data and contribute to a thriving in-office culture with strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field is required.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and scalable systems.
• Familiarity with service meshes and modern infrastructure tooling.

Responsibilities

• Identify and lead scalability, reliability, and efficiency initiatives.
• Influence platform features and drive architectural decisions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers.
• Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to deliver key results.

Skills

Python

Go

AWS

Istio

Kubernetes

Communication skills

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Istio

Kubernetes

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

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will help architect, design and develop projects targeted at making Verkada’s infrastructure the most reliable and cost efficient while scaling to millions of connected devices. Example projects include rolling out a service mesh or designing a cost efficient service ingesting and storing terabytes of video footage. You'll have the opportunity to lead cross-team efforts, mentor your team members and establish engineering best practices across the entire organization.

We are committed to a thriving in-office culture. This role requires you to be onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA.

What You'll Do

• Identify and lead critical efforts related to scalability, reliability and efficiency;


• Influence the features and direction of our platform with your own ideas;


• Provide technical support for engineers on team;


• Align with product and org objectives, and coordinate with cross-functional teams on delivering key results.

What You Bring

• Must have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or similar technical field of study


• Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new infrastructure products, features, and strategies


• Comfortable with working at the frontier of infrastructure and software development


• Experience in Python and/or Go


• Experience with one of the major cloud platforms (preferably AWS)


• Strong written and verbal communications


• Experience with Terraform is preferred


• Experience with Kubernetes is preferred


• Experience with a service mesh such as Istio is preferred

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


• Fertility 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

$180,000—$280,000 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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