Senior-Staff Software Engineer, Tooling

About the Role

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 the 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.

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 and 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

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