Senior-Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity
Senior-Staff Software Engineer on Verkada's Infrastructure team improving engineering productivity by optimizing Bazel and C++ build infrastructure, owning Kubernetes deployment tooling, and building testing frameworks for microservices and firmware.
- Compensation
- $130K–$280K / hr
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar position
- Strong experience with C/C++ build systems (Make, CMake, Meson, or similar)
- Deep understanding of C/C++ compilation, linking, and dependency management
- Experience with build system migration and modernization
- Proven experience with Bazel in large-scale monorepo environments
- Proficiency in authoring and maintaining custom Bazel rules
- Experience designing and implementing Bazel toolchains for C/C++ builds
- Knowledge of Bazel remote execution and caching strategies
Nice to have
- Experience with bzlmod (Bazel's modern dependency management)
- Familiarity with cross-platform C/C++ builds (Linux, macOS, Windows)
- Background in build system performance optimization and incremental compilation
- Background in firmware development and deployment
Full description
Who We Are
Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.
You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.
About the Role
We are actively looking for a talented software engineer to join the Infrastructure team with a focus on improving Engineering Productivity, specifically our Bazel and C++ infrastructure. Example projects include optimizing Bazel, extending and onboarding services to Bazel, improving C++ support through Bazel and our entire infrastructure. This will have a cross-company impact allowing engineers to quickly iterate locally on microservices and firmware.
We are committed to a thriving in-office culture. This role requires you to be onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA (with flexibility to work from home).
What You'll Do
- Make every engineer’s day-to-day productive and enjoyable!
- Define engineering tooling roadmap
- Own Kubernetes deployment and development tooling
- Build various software and hardware testing frameworks
- Provide technical support for engineers on other teams
- Help with growing the team
What You Bring
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Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar position
Build Systems & Tooling:
- Strong experience with C/C++ build systems (Make, CMake, Meson, or similar)
- Deep understanding of C/C++ compilation, linking, and dependency management
- Experience with build system migration and modernization
Bazel Expertise:
- Proven experience with Bazel in large-scale monorepo environments
- Proficiency in authoring and maintaining custom Bazel rules