Verkada
Software Engineering Manager - Alarms
$200K–$340K
San Mateo, CA United States +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
San Mateo, California, United States - Experience
- 2+ years leading, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams; 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas; if an offer is made, the company will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.
About the job
Leads the team building alarm-response software that analyzes incidents, filters false alarms, and coordinates actions across customer, operator, and emergency-dispatch workflows.
What you'll do
- Own the real-time response workflow engine and vision-language pipeline that adapts SOPs during incidents.
- Set reliability standards and decide with product and monitoring operations where AI acts autonomously versus where humans decide.
- Hire and grow the team, partner on the roadmap, and extend the response layer across the platform.
What they ask for
- 2+ years leading, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems.
- Experience with real-time or high-availability systems where latency and uptime carry consequences.
- Track record of driving product outcomes through close collaboration with product management.
Nice to have
- Experience architecting and deploying AI-driven workflows in production, particularly when model output triggers real-world action.
- Background in mission-critical B2B software or hardware-software systems deployed in the field.
Pay
$200,000 — $340,000 USD total pay (annual on-target earnings, comprising base compensation and commissions if applicable)
Tools
AI, real-time workflow engine, vision-language pipeline
AI focus
Defines where AI acts autonomously versus where a human decides; owns a vision-language pipeline that adapts SOPs mid-incident and AI-driven incident analysis and automation.
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