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Verkada

Software Engineer - Fleet Management

Verkada, San Mateo, California, United States, 94409

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Who We Are Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100 companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full‑time employees.

About the Role We’re looking for a backend software engineer with strong data analysis skills to join our camera fleet management team. You’ll build the data infrastructure and analytical tools that power our safe release operations across a million+ camera devices. This role combines traditional backend engineering with data pipeline development, log analysis, and metrics‑driven insights.

Camera firmware releases include critical updates like new AI models, and understanding their impact requires sophisticated data analysis at scale. You’ll develop the pipelines, dashboards, and analytical tools that help us detect anomalies, measure release health, and ensure every deployment is successful. Your work will directly support data‑driven decision making for releases that impact our customers and our reputation.

Every release decision we make affects hundreds of thousands of cameras in the field. The data pipelines you build and the insights you surface directly determine whether we can release confidently or need to halt a problematic rollout. You’ll be the engineering force behind our data‑driven release culture.

You’ll work closely with the Systems Software Engineer leading the team to build robust data infrastructure—from ingestion pipelines processing high‑volume logs to SQL queries surfacing critical insights to real‑time monitoring dashboards.

What You’ll Do

Build data pipelines:

Design and implement data workflows using technologies like Kafka, Firehose, or Spark to process release metrics and device telemetry at scale

Develop analytical tools:

Create Python‑based analysis tools using pandas and SQL to identify release issues, detect anomalies, and measure fleet health

High‑volume log analysis:

Build systems to ingest, process, and analyze logs from millions of devices using technologies like OpenSearch, text clustering, and AI‑based techniques

Create monitoring infrastructure:

Develop Grafana dashboards and alerts that surface critical metrics and anomalies in real time

Support release operations:

Provide data‑driven insights during releases, helping the team make informed decisions about rollout speed and risk

Design test infrastructure:

Build test bench setups and CI pipelines that validate releases before they reach production

Query and optimize:

Write efficient SQL queries against time‑series databases to extract insights from large‑scale device data

Must‑Haves

BS/MS in Computer Science (or similar degree).

3+ years of industry experience in distributed software engineering.

Strong Python skills:

Proficiency in Python for data analysis, particularly with libraries like pandas

SQL expertise:

Experience writing complex SQL queries for time‑series analysis

Backend engineering fundamentals:

Solid software engineering skills – this is a backend role that involves data, not a pure data engineering position

Data pipeline experience:

Familiarity with pipeline technologies like Kafka, Firehose, or Spark

Log analysis at scale:

Experience with high‑volume log analysis technologies such as OpenSearch, text clustering, or AI‑based log analysis techniques

Timeseries databases:

Experience working with timeseries databases and temporal data

Metrics & observability:

Hands‑on experience with Grafana or similar monitoring tools

Anomaly detection:

Understanding of anomaly detection techniques and their practical application

Coding‑based analysis:

Preference for solving problems through code rather than manual analysis

Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

Nice‑to‑Have

Experience with Go

Background in statistics or experimental design

Familiarity with A/B testing and statistical inference

Experience with CI/CD systems

Knowledge of test automation frameworks

Understanding of distributed systems

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, firm‑wide 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).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$130,000 — $280,000 USD

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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