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# Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

- **Company:** Verkada Inc.
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $280,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Visualization, Distributed Systems, Data Processing, Kubernetes, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/9371504?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F9371504%2FSenior-Software-Engineer-Data-Platform-California-San-Mateo

## About the Role

* 5+ years of data engineering related development experience
 * Flexible and adaptive in a fast-paced startup environment
 * Passion for product quality and building systems to ship high quality releases
 * In-depth expertise in distributed systems and data processing
 * Experience with data infrastructure and data analytics
 * Experience with Kubernetes is preferred
 * Experience in data visualization and dashboard design is preferred

## Description

As a member of our Infrastructure team, you will build data infrastructure, data pipeline and services to allow the teams to make data driven decisions, and ultimately put quality features into the hands of users. We emphasize tools over processes, automation over operation, metrics over anecdotes, iteration over perfection, and proactive over responsive.

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

 * Design and implement reliable, scalable and efficient data infrastructure to allow the team to gain insights and make quality data driven decisions
 * Work cross-functionally to build data products that allows other teams to gain insights and ultimately improve Verkada products and Verkada customer experience
 * Design and implement solutions to ensure data quality, security, and compliance
 * Lead whole projects from design to implementation
 * Help lead and grow junior engineers


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