Engineering Manager, Maps

Atlas is the founding engineering team responsible for the Maps mandate at Verkada. Our mission is to transform the physical world into a high-performance, interactive digital twin. We build Verkada Maps, the core rendering engine, tiling infrastructure, and collaborative APIs; that power the visual interface for our entire product ecosystem. Maps launches its private beta today.

The Platform Mandate

We work in a collaborative environment, integrating with key Verkada products including Cameras, Access Control, Sensors, and Alarms. You are responsible for ensuring that as we scale to 8+ product lines, the map remains a performant, unified, and multi editor experience.

What You Do

• Zero-to-One Execution: Act as a "Player-Coach" to build the V1 of our Spatial System from the ground up. You own the initial delivery of our image pipeline and set the technical standards for our collaborative editing protocols.
• Platform Architecture: Lead the design of a modular, plugin-based architecture. You define the SDKs and APIs that allow 8+ Product Teams (Cameras, Access Control, Alarms, etc.) to overlay their specialized data onto our maps seamlessly.
• Data Ingestion Strategy: Oversee the development of the systems that transform unstructured source data—blueprints, CAD files, and high-res imagery—into clean, topologically sound vector data using ML and automated processing.
• Hire & Mentor: Build the founding Atlas team from scratch (4-6 engineers). You establish the engineering culture, from code review standards to architectural RFC processes, focusing on high-performance graphics and spatial math.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Act as the primary technical diplomat for the Maps mandate. You negotiate technical boundaries with other Product EMs to ensure a unified user experience across the entire Verkada suite.

What You Bring

• Execution Bias & Technical Grit: You thrive in the high-ambiguity phase of a zero-to-one build. You are a builder who prioritizes shipping high-utility foundations over perfect abstractions, with a proven ability to translate a high-level vision into a tangible, functioning platform in weeks, not months.
• Strategic Communication: The ability to negotiate technical boundaries with other product teams, ensuring a consistent user experience across the entire Verkada "Command" suite.
• UI Depth & Sophistication: You have led the development of highly complex, state-heavy web or mobile applications. You understand the performance trade-offs of rendering thousands of interactive entities and have a deep grasp of modern frontend architectures (React, WebGL/WebGPU, Swift/Kotlin).
• Data Pipeline & ML Maturity: You have experience building sophisticated data pipelines that handle unstructured data at scale. Whether it's through ML, ETL, or complex geometric algorithms, you know how to turn raw inputs into structured, queryable information.

US Employee Benefits

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.