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Software Engineering Manager - Alarms

Verkada · San Mateo, CA United States

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
57 days
Verkada's roles stay open a median of 66 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Verkada's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Verkada
high
244 stale, 5 reposted of 304 open
Hiring momentum
398 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-08

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Verkada's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Verkada.

About this role

As a Software Engineering Manager for the Alarms team at Verkada, you will oversee the development of the software that manages alarm responses, integrating AI and human judgment to enhance security. Your responsibilities include defining workflows, ensuring system reliability, hiring and mentoring your team, and collaborating with product management and operators to improve the alarm product. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership to drive product outcomes and scale the engineering team.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Verkada as an employer.

What you need

  • 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

Nice to have

  • 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

What you get

  • Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet personal health and financial well-being needs
  • Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
  • Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Expanded mental health support
  • Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
  • Paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time

Worth weighing

  • No specific technologies or programming languages mentioned in the posting
  • Salary range provided is broad, which may indicate variability based on experience
  • Role involves high-stakes decision-making in a mission-critical environment

Summarised from Verkada's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Verkada on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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