Job Description
Verkada is seeking a Staff/Senior Software Engineer to join their Platform Infrastructure team. This role is based in San Mateo, CA. The ideal candidate will be responsible for architecting, designing, and developing projects to enhance the reliability and cost-efficiency of Verkada’s infrastructure, supporting millions of connected devices. The engineer will lead cross-team efforts, mentor team members, and establish engineering best practices across the organization.
Responsibilities:
- 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 the team.
- Align with product and org objectives and coordinate with cross-functional teams on delivering key results.
Requirements:
- 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.
Nice to have:
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with a service mesh such as Istio
Verkada offers:
- Healthcare programs with premiums 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