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Verkada Inc

Staff/Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Productivity

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In-Office
San Mateo, CA
130K-320K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
San Mateo, CA
130K-320K Annually
Senior level
Join Verkada's Infrastructure team to enhance engineering productivity, manage Kubernetes deployments, and develop testing frameworks while providing technical support to engineers.
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Who We Are
Verkada is a leader in cloud-based B2B physical security. Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.
 
Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.
 
Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices across three continents, 2,100+ full-time employees and 30,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

Overview

We are actively looking for a talented software engineer to join the Infrastructure team with a focus on engineering productivity and …Example projects include improving build time and dependency management in our monorepo, allowing engineers to quickly iterate locally on microservices, building fast and reliable testing framework, or standardizing logging and monitoring systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Make every engineer’s day-to-day productive and enjoyable!
  • Define engineering tooling roadmap
  • Own Kubernetes deployment and development tooling
  • Build various software and hardware testing frameworks
  • Provide technical support for engineers on other teams
  • Help with growing the team

Requirements:

  • Must have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or similar technical field of study
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar position
  • Experience in at least one scripting language (preferably Python)
  • Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new technologies and tooling
  • Comfortable with working at the frontier of infrastructure and software development

Nice to have:

  • Experience with one of the major cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
  • Experience using Kubernetes
  • Experience with Go
  • Experience managing a monorepo
  • Experience with Bazel or similar build systems
  • Experience with ArgoCD
  • Experience writing Kubernetes controllers

Perks & 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

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
$130,000$320,000 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.

Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy. 

Top Skills

Argocd
AWS
Bazel
Go
Kubernetes
Python
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406 E. 3rd Ave, San Mateo, CA, United States, 94401

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