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# Senior Engineering Manager, Business Systems

- **Company:** Verkada Inc.
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $350,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Business Systems, Databases, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Netsuite, Software Engineering, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform
- **Published:** September 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18165609?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18165609%2FSenior-Engineering-Manager-Business-Systems-California-San-Mateo

## About the Role

* 4+ years of experience in managing, leading, and inspiring a team of engineers, including hiring, retaining, and managing performance.
 * 10+ years of work experience in a software engineering role, with proven technical leadership skills and expertise in designing scalable, reliable, and efficient solutions.
 * Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
 * Ability to spot gaps between process and tools, and a strong commitment to close them.
 * Proficient in agile team software development and strong project management, delivering complex projects within defined timelines and resource constraints.
 * Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams, communicating effectively, and aligning efforts to achieve common goals.
 * Experience with Python or Go, and familiarity with backend development flow, including server-side framework and database system.

Nice to Have

 * Experience with Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform
 * Experience with Netsuite (or any other ERP)
 * Experience building long term roadmaps and presenting to Executives.
 * Hands-on leadership experience managing platform teams in a dynamic, high-growth environment.
 * Experience implementing scalable and reliable solutions using modern cloud and DevOps practices.

## Description

We are looking for a seasoned engineering manager to scale up an established team. This role requires balancing out new product/capability builds with an emphasis on resilience and reliability. Expertise in distributed/financial systems that require high uptime is essential, knowledge around finance systems such as Netsuite is a bonus. The team owns a partner facing product and will require collaboration with product managers as well as go to market teams.
What You'll Do

 * Provide strategic direction and set up technical vision to raise our bar on reliability, scalability, and availability of our global infrastructure.
 * Manage cross-functional collaboration with orders, supply chain, finance and other GTM teams to initiate, drive critical business initiatives and deliver with high quality
 * Mentoring engineers on good architecture choices (tech spec reviews) as well as balancing out stakeholder requirements on latency.
 * Work with different organizations to build future roadmap alongside evolving business processes.
 * Build and lead the team through effective recruitment, mentoring, and leadership.