Responsibilities
- Build applied AI products and backend systems supporting pipeline, revenue, and go-to-market effectiveness.
- Develop agent workflows, tools, integrations, evaluation systems, and guardrails.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Operations stakeholders to translate ambiguous needs into shippable software.
- Design and operate APIs, services, workflows, and data pipelines for lead management, attribution, and automation.
- Own projects from prototype through production while maintaining reliability, security, observability, and maintainability.
- Shape technical direction, establish reusable engineering patterns, coach engineers, and lead improvements to architecture and engineering practices.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience building production backend or full-stack systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python or a similar backend language, including API, service, and data model design.
- Experience independently owning ambiguous projects from problem definition through launch and iteration.
- Strong product judgment and ability to work with non-technical users and stakeholders.
- Experience integrating systems with external APIs, internal platforms, or enterprise software.
- Curiosity about applied AI and ability to learn evolving models, tools, and product patterns.
- Experience coaching engineers and leading changes to engineering practices, architecture, or ways of working.
- Preferred experience includes production LLM applications, tool or function calling, AI agents, multi-step AI workflows, AI evaluation, context engineering, retrieval, prompt design, model selection, permissions, guardrails, human-in-the-loop workflows, AWS, serverless architectures, queues, scheduled workflows, infrastructure as code, and sales, B2B marketing, revenue, CRM, or campaign systems.
- Must be independently authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is unavailable.
Benefits
- Employee healthcare premiums are fully covered under at least one plan, with family premiums covered at 80% under all plans.
- Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage, plus HSA employer contributions and FSA options.
- Expanded mental health support, paid parental leave, and fertility benefits.
- Paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
- Professional development stipend and wellness or fitness benefits.
- Healthy lunches provided daily and commuter benefits.
- Onsite work at the San Mateo, California headquarters five days per week.
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About Verkada
Transforming how organizations protect people and places. Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive platform that includes video security, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. Today, more than 30,000 organizations, including 100+ Fortune 500 companies, rely on Verkada. With over $1B in annualized bookings, a $5.8B valuation, and backing from NVIDIA, CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, and Next47, we’re scaling rapidly across the global market. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it. From retail stores preventing theft before it happens, to warehouses using AI-powered alerts to improve worker safety, to schools detecting and responding to threats in seconds, not minutes, Verkada is redefining what modern physical security can do. More than 2 million devices are now deployed across 170+ countries, and we’re just getting started.