Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Connectivity

About the Role

We’re the Connectivity Team at Verkada — and we own some of the most strategically critical products in the company:

• Verkada Gateways – Bringing cameras, access control, and sensors online anywhere in the world
• Verkada Security Trailers – Rapid-deploy mobile security units
• Quality Sensors – Environmental intelligence at scale

We’re a small, vertically integrated team touching everything from embedded firmware, cellular modems & SIMs, and Linux networking to cloud backend services and Command Frontend.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain embedded software and firmware for devices we ship to customers.
• Own features end to end, from scoping and architecture through implementation, testing, and production launch.
• Develop and debug software for Linux-based devices, including connectivity and networking features.
• Work with product management, hardware, and cloud teams to define and ship features that improve the customer experience.
• Share knowledge with teammates and mentor other engineers.
• Contribute to cloud services depending on your interests.

What You Bring

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or closely related degree, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of work experience in an embedded engineering role
• Proficient in C, C++
• Experience in owning SW features or projects end to end with production launch
• Experience in SW development on HW products (working knowledge of common low-level interfaces: SPI, I2C, UART; working knowledge of FreeRTOS and Embedded Linux)
• Experience reading schematics (basic EE skills)
• Willingness and ability to work onsite five days per week

Nice To Have

• Experience with networking or wireless communication protocols
• Proficient in Go