Software Engineering Manager

The Alarms team builds the response layer: the software that decides what happens in the minutes after an alarm fires. It uses real-time video, audio, and sensor data to analyze incidents, filter false alarms, and coordinate verifiable action. As an Engineering Manager, you will own this system across three surfaces: the customer incident experience, the monitoring software our human operators use to handle alarms at scale, and the integrations that carry an incident out to emergency dispatch.

• Define where AI acts autonomously and where a human decides, in partnership with the product and our monitoring operations team.
• Own the real-time workflow engine that models response actions after an alarm is triggered, and the vision-language pipeline that adapts SOPs mid-incident.
• Set and hold the reliability bar for a system with no acceptable quiet failure mode.
• Hire and grow the team.
• Partner with the PM on the roadmap, and with the operators who use the monitoring tools daily.
• Work across product teams to extend the response layer into the rest of the Verkada platform.

• 2+ years leading, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems.
• Experience with real-time or high-availability systems where latency and uptime carry consequences.
• A track record of driving product outcomes through close collaboration with product management.

• Experience architecting and deploying AI-driven workflows in production, particularly ones where model output triggers real-world action.
• Background in mission-critical B2B software, or in hardware-software systems deployed in the field.

Estimated Annual Pay Range: $200,000—$340,000 USD. Eligible for additional compensation including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs). Benefits include healthcare programs with 100% covered employee premiums under at least one plan, nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage, HSA with employer contributions, expanded mental health support, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, paid holidays, flexible PTO, professional development stipend, wellness/fitness benefits, and commuter benefits.

We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role.