Verkada

Senior-Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity

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2 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$130k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the engineering tooling roadmap.
  • Optimize Bazel and onboard services to Bazel across the infrastructure.
  • Own Kubernetes deployment and development tooling.
  • Build software and hardware testing frameworks.
  • Improve C++ support through Bazel and the broader infrastructure.
  • Provide technical support to engineers on other teams.
  • Help grow the engineering team.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in a similar position.
  • Strong experience with C/C++ build systems such as Make, CMake, or Meson.
  • Deep understanding of C/C++ compilation, linking, and dependency management.
  • Experience migrating and modernizing build systems.
  • Proven experience using Bazel in large-scale monorepo environments.
  • Proficiency authoring and maintaining custom Bazel rules.
  • Experience designing and implementing Bazel toolchains for C/C++ builds.
  • Knowledge of Bazel remote execution and caching strategies.
  • Preferred: experience with bzlmod, cross-platform C/C++ builds on Linux, macOS, and Windows, build-system performance optimization, incremental compilation, or firmware development and deployment.

Benefits

  • Healthcare programs with employee premiums fully covered under at least one plan and family premiums covered at 80% under all plans.
  • Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account.
  • Expanded mental health support.
  • Paid parental leave and fertility benefits.
  • Paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
  • Professional development stipend.
  • Fertility stipend.
  • Wellness and fitness benefits.
  • Healthy lunches provided daily.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Employment visa sponsorship is available.
  • The role requires onsite work at the San Mateo, California headquarters, with flexibility to work from home.

Tech Stack

BazelCC++CMakeKubernetesLinuxmacOSMakeWindows

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About Verkada

1,001-5,000 employees

Verkada builds a cloud-managed physical security platform for enterprises, combining security cameras, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management with web and mobile software. It sells hardware plus software licenses through a subscription model to organizations like schools, retailers, and industrial sites. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Verkada reports 30,000+ customers worldwide and is privately held.

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