Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will help architect, design and develop projects targeted at making Verkada’s infrastructure the most reliable and cost efficient while scaling to millions of connected devices. Example projects include rolling out a service mesh or designing a cost efficient service ingesting and storing terabytes of video footage. You'll have the opportunity to lead cross-team efforts, mentor your team members and establish engineering best practices across the entire organization.

This role requires you to be onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA.

What You'll Do

• Identify and lead critical efforts related to scalability, reliability and efficiency
• Influence the features and direction of our platform with your own ideas
• Provide technical support for engineers on team
• Align with product and org objectives, and coordinate with cross-functional teams on delivering key results

What You Bring

• 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