Senior-Staff Software Engineer, Tooling

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare premiums covered for the员工

Nationwide medical vision dental

HSA employer contributions

Mental health support

Paid parental leave & fertility

Flexible PTO & holidays

Fertility stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy lunches provided daily

Job summary

Verkada in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and improve internal tools and systems that empower developers, sales, and support. You will work on cloud-based workflows, licensing handling, and tooling that scales with millions of devices.

This onsite role offers the chance to contribute to security and privacy features, AI-powered tooling, and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Interest in learning about new infrastructure products, features, and strategies.
• Comfortable with frontier of infrastructure and software development.
• Experience in Python and/or Go.
• Experience with AWS or major cloud platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communications.
• Terraform experience preferred.
• Kubernetes experience preferred.
• Istio service mesh experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend tooling to empower developers, sales, and support.
• Improve licensing handling.
• Refactor monolith tool into smaller, more manageable tools.
• Improve the feature flags system.
• Build AI-powered tooling.
• Enhance security and privacy tooling.
• Contribute to open-source systems used by Verkada.

Skills

Python

Go

Cloud platforms

Strong communications

Learning infrastructure

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio

Job description

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 focus on building and enhancing tools and systems that empower our developers, sales, and support teams. As a Backend Engineer on our team, you’ll focus on designing new tools and improving quality of existing ones. Whether you’re early in your career or bring years of experience, there’s an opportunity to make a significant impact.

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

• Doing common actions in the cloud rather than from developer machines
• Improving handling of licenses
• Separating the monolith support tool into smaller a more manageable tools
• Improving the feature flags system
• Building tools that use AI
• Building tools to improve security and privacy
• Contributing to open-source systems used by Verkada

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
• Fertility stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily

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).

$130,000 - $280,000 USD

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