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Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Business Systems

Verkada

Verkada

Software Engineering
San Mateo, CA, USA
Posted on Nov 20, 2024

Who We Are

Verkada is the largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform company in the world. Only Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.
Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.
Founded in 2016 with more than $460M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 16 offices across three continents, 1,900+ full-time employees and 25,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

As a member of our Business Systems Engineering team, you will build or improve tools that are used daily by Go to Market teams. Our goal is to find bottlenecks and friction points, and drive process improvements as well as come up with technical solutions. Our team is the custodian of data that is used by sales, order, finance, support teams. We emphasize automation over operation, metrics over anecdotes, iteration over perfection and being proactive over responsive.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement technical solutions that will span between AWS, Salesforce and NetSuite
  • Improve systems observability and invest in reliability & correctness of data
  • Develop customer empathy to propose improvements to systems
  • Lead projects from ideation to release
  • Help and mentor junior engineers

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of software engineering with a focus on distributed systems at scale
  • Shipped customer facing products or internal tools in the past
  • Flexible and adaptive in a fast-paced startup environment
  • Passion for observability and reliability
  • In-depth expertise in distributed systems and data processing
  • AWS Cloud experience touching foundational blocks like: Kubernetes, Fargate, Lambda, Airflow, Athena, DynamoDB, VPC, and EC2.
  • Bonus: Experience with data infrastructure and data analytics

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under most plans and 80% for family premiums under all plansNationwide medical, vision and dental coverageHealth Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving optionsExpanded mental health supportPaid parental leave policy & fertility benefitsTime off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick timeProfessional development stipendFertility Stipend Wellness/fitness benefitsHealthy lunches provided dailyCommuter benefits

Pay Disclosure

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate’s skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range. This estimate is also just one component of Verkada’s total rewards package. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Estimated Annual Pay Range
$180,000$300,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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