Software Engineering Manager - Alarms

Verkada Inc.
San Mateo, CA, United States
27 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Distributed Systems Software Engineering

Job description

Experteer Overview As Engineering Manager for the Alarms team, you shape the response layer that governs post-alarm actions. You’ll own the real-time workflow engine and vision-language pipeline, guiding autonomous decisions vs human oversight. You’ll set reliability standards for a mission-critical, large-scale system and grow a cross-functional team. Work closely with product, monitoring operations, and other teams to extend the alarm platform across Verkada’s ecosystem. This is a hands-on leadership role in a fast-growing, AI-powered security platform. Compensation / Benefits * Define AI autonomy boundaries in collaboration with product and monitoring operations * Own the real-time workflow engine and vision-language pipeline for mid-incident SOP adaptation * Set and maintain reliability bar for a high-availability system * Hire and grow the engineering team * Partner with PM on roadmap and with operators using monitoring tools * Collaborate across product teams to extend the response layer into Verkada platform Tasks * 2+ years leading, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams * 5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems * Experience with real-time or high-availability systems where latency and uptime matter * Track record of driving product outcomes through close collaboration with product management Key requirements * Healthcare programs coverage * Nationwide medical, vision and dental * Health Savings Account with employer contributions * Flexible PTO and holidays * Mental health support * Professional development stipend

Requirements

response layer into Verkada platform Tasks * 2+ years leading, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams * 5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems * Experience with real-time or high-availability systems where latency and uptime matter * Track record of driving product outcomes through close collaboration with product management Key requirements * Healthcare programs coverage * Nationwide medical, vision and dental * Health Savings Account with employer contributions * Flexible PTO and holidays * Mental health support * Professional development stipend

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