Verkada
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Developer AI
$180K–$280K
San Mateo, CA United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
San Mateo, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Visa sponsorship
- The company sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role and will make every reasonable effort to get a visa if it makes an offer.
About the job
Build infrastructure, tools, and agentic workflows that improve productivity for Verkada engineers.
What you'll do
- Build AI infrastructure and systems that run AI agents asynchronously, balancing security, cost, and usability.
- Define the Developer AI roadmap, create frameworks to evaluate agent performance, and partner with teams to launch and support services.
- Document and teach AI best practices across the company, and help grow the team.
What they ask for
- Production systems experience, including agentic or automation-heavy workflows.
- Strong hands-on coding ability in Go and Python.
- Experience building systems that interact with APIs, tools, and external services.
- Ability to define and rigorously evaluate performance metrics, and write clear technical design documents and drive alignment.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with agent frameworks or orchestration systems; experience in monorepo environments.
- Experience with developer productivity tools or startup/early-stage teams.
Pay
$180,000 — $280,000 USD (annual on-target earnings (OTE) range)
Tools
Go, Python
AI focus
Build AI infrastructure and agentic workflows, including asynchronous coding agents and evaluation frameworks for agent quality.
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