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Verkada is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a new team building AI agents that improve engineering velocity, reliability, and developer experience across the company. This is a 0→1 charter role within the Infrastructure/DevX organization, focused on developing agentic systems that automate workflows including CI failure triage, autonomous deployments, incident response, and proactive bug detection.
You will define the roadmap for what to automate and in what order, build and grow a small high-impact team of engineers, and actively contribute hands-on to prototyping and development. Key responsibilities include making every engineer more productive by eliminating repetitive workflows through AI agents, establishing evaluation frameworks for agent performance (golden tasks, regression sets, replay, LLM-as-judge), and partnering closely with Infrastructure, Security, and DevX teams to integrate agents into core workflows. You'll drive high engineering standards through design docs, RFCs, and strong execution.
Required qualifications: 7+ years of software engineering experience with 2+ years in engineering management. You must have proven experience shipping production systems, including agentic or automation-heavy workflows, and strong hands-on coding ability in Python, Go, or TypeScript. Experience building systems that interact with APIs, tools, and external services (not just prompt-based interfaces) is essential, along with demonstrated ability to define metrics and evaluate system performance rigorously, and experience writing clear technical design documents.
Nice-to-have skills include experience building or managing developer tooling or internal platforms, familiarity with agent frameworks or orchestration systems, experience in monorepo environments, and startup or early-stage team experience (0→1 or small team scaling).
Verkada is a high-growth company with $5.8B valuation, 30,000+ customers including 100+ Fortune 500 companies, and $1B+ in annualized bookings. The company is transforming physical security with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform. Visa sponsorship is available.
