Verkada

Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

San Mateo, CA United States

Live, first seen by us 77 days ago

Pay: USD 130,000–280,000/yearAnnual period assumed — pay source
Estimated Annual Pay Range $130,000—$280,000 USD Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
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Employment: Full-time — employment source
Employment type in the employer’s posting: Full-Time
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Work authorization: Sponsors visas

What you’ll work on

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We are committed to a thriving in-office culture.

Design and implement reliable, scalable data infrastructure
Build data products that other teams use for insights
Design solutions for data quality, security and compliance
Lead projects from design through implementation
Help lead and grow junior engineers

From the employer’s posting

As a member of our Infrastructure team, you will build data infrastructure, data pipeline and services to allow the teams to make data driven decisions, and ultimately put quality features into the hands of users. We emphasize tools over processes, automation over operation, metrics over anecdotes, iteration over perfection, and 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.

Design and implement reliable, scalable and efficient data infrastructure

Work cross-functionally to build data products that allows other teams to gain insights

Design and implement solutions to ensure data quality, security, and compliance

Lead whole projects from design to implementation

Help lead and grow junior engineers

What you’ll bring

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Core experience

5+ years of data engineering development experience
In-depth expertise in distributed systems and data processing
Experience with data infrastructure and data analytics
Passion for product quality and shipping high-quality releases
Flexible and adaptive in a fast-paced startup environment

Preferred experience

Experience with Kubernetes is preferred
Experience in data visualization and dashboard design is preferred

Qualification wording

5+ years of data engineering related development experience

In-depth expertise in distributed systems and data processing

Experience with data infrastructure and data analytics

Passion for product quality and building systems to ship high quality releases

Flexible and adaptive in a fast-paced startup environment

Experience with Kubernetes is preferred

Experience in data visualization and dashboard design is preferred

About Verkada

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.

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Recorded sightings: 159
Last seen by us: Nov 4, 2026

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How this job compares

Pay

Higher than most similar jobs

$130K–$280K against $127K–$190K, the middle half of what similar US postings state.

From 2,133 postings in the last year. Stated ranges, not salaries paid.

Time since we first saw it

Day 77

Up longer than most. Similar jobs usually come down between day 5 and day 54.

From 10,736 similar postings that came down. Coming down is not always a hire.

Verkada is hiring

2 open jobs

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- Experience with data infrastructure and data analytics - Experience with Kubernetes is preferred - Experience in data visualization and dashboard design is preferred

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About the role

We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.

Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.

An analytics engineer works one step later, turning the raw data a data engineer lands into clean tables people can query.

US government figures for database architects

Median yearly pay, May 2025: $139,500
Expected change, 2025 to 2035: 9.4% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

The government has no code for data engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, database architects, which includes data integration and data warehousing specialists.

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1243.

Job description

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Who We Are

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

As a member of our Infrastructure team, you will build data infrastructure, data pipeline and services to allow the teams to make data driven decisions, and ultimately put quality features into the hands of users. We emphasize tools over processes, automation over operation, metrics over anecdotes, iteration over perfection, and 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 reliable, scalable and efficient data infrastructure to allow the team to gain insights and make quality data driven decisions
Work cross-functionally to build data products that allows other teams to gain insights and ultimately improve Verkada products and Verkada customer experience
Design and implement solutions to ensure data quality, security, and compliance
Lead whole projects from design to implementation
Help lead and grow junior engineers

What You Bring

5+ years of data engineering related development experience
Flexible and adaptive in a fast-paced startup environment
Passion for product quality and building systems to ship high quality releases
In-depth expertise in distributed systems and data processing
Experience with data infrastructure and data analytics
Experience with Kubernetes is preferred
Experience in data visualization and dashboard design is preferred

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

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

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$130,000—$280,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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