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# Senior-Staff Software Engineer, Tooling

- **Company:** Verkada Inc.
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $280,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Istio, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18640856/Senior-Staff-Software-Engineer-Tooling-California-San-Mateo

## About the Role

* Must have a 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
 * Experience with Terraform is preferred
 * Experience with Kubernetes is preferred
 * Experience with a service mesh such as Istio is preferred

## Description

We focus on building and enhancing tools and systems that empower our developers, sales, and support teams. As a Backend Engineer on our team, you'd focus on designing new tools and improving quality of existing ones. Whether you're early in your career or bring years of experience, there's an opportunity to make a significant impact.

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

 * Doing common actions in the cloud rather than from developer machines
 * Improving handling of licenses
 * Separating the monolith support tool into smaller a more manageable tools
 * Improving the feature flags system
 * Building tools that use AI
 * Building tools to improve security and privacy
 * Contributing to open-source systems used by Verkada