Join Verkada as a Senior Software Engineer to enhance tools for Go to Market teams in a fast-paced, in-office environment.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Design and implement technical solutions
- Improve systems observability
- Develop customer empathy
- Lead projects from ideation to release
- Help and mentor junior engineers
Must have
- 5+ years of software engineering
- Focus on distributed systems at scale
- Shipped customer facing products or internal tools
Nice to have
- Experience with data infrastructure
- Experience with data analytics
Practical constraints
- Onsite at HQ in San Mateo, CA
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on enhancing tools that support the Go to Market teams by identifying and resolving operational bottlenecks. Key skills include expertise in distributed systems, AWS, and data processing, with a strong emphasis on observability and reliability. This position is ideal for experienced engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments and have a background in developing customer-facing products or internal tools. The team operates within a collaborative in-office culture, emphasizing proactive problem-solving and mentorship.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze October 15, 2026. Last confirmed on Verkada's careers page October 15, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Verkada: San Mateo, CA United States.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 56% of 113 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $173,000 across 54 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 31.9% of 492 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Athena appears in 0.4% of 492 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Business Systems - GTM role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Mateo, CA, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Verkada lists $180,000–$260,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Business Systems - GTM role.
- Where is the role based?
- Verkada is hiring for this position in San Mateo, CA, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Airflow, Athena, DynamoDB, EC2, Fargate.
- Does Verkada sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Verkada targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Business Systems - GTM role at Verkada.
From the original posting
Who We Are
About the Role
As a member of our Business Systems Engineering team, you will build or improve tools that are used daily by Go to Market teams. Our goal is to find bottlenecks and friction points, and drive process improvements as well as come up with technical solutions. Our team is the custodian of data that is used by sales, order, finance, support teams. We emphasize automation over operation, metrics over anecdotes, iteration over perfection and being proactive over responsive.
We are committed to a thriving in-office culture. This role requires you to be onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement technical solutions that will span between AWS, Salesforce and NetSuite
- Improve systems observability and invest in reliability & correctness of data
- Develop customer empathy to propose improvements to systems
- Lead projects from ideation to release
- Help and mentor junior engineers
What You Bring
- 5+ years of software engineering with a focus on distributed systems at scale
- Shipped customer facing products or internal tools in the past
- Flexible and adaptive in a fast-paced startup environment
- Passion for observability and reliability
- In-depth expertise in distributed systems and data processing
- AWS Cloud experience touching foundational blocks like: Kubernetes, Fargate, Lambda, Airflow, Athena, DynamoDB, VPC, and EC2.
- Bonus: Experience with data infrastructure and data analytics
- 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
- Fertility 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.
Annual Pay Range
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
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