Engineering Manager, Agentic Workflows

Verkada • San Mateo, CA

3d • Remote

About The Position

Verkada is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a new team focused on building AI agents to enhance engineering velocity, reliability, and developer experience across the company. This team will operate with a 0→1 charter within the Infrastructure / DevX organization, developing agentic systems to automate workflows such as CI failure triage, autonomous deployments, incident response, and proactive bug detection. The role is strategic and hands-on, involving roadmap definition, team building, and active contribution to prototyping and development, with the goal of reducing toil and enabling faster iteration across all engineering teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in engineering management
• Proven experience shipping production systems, including agentic or automation-heavy workflows
• 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)
• Demonstrated ability to define metrics and evaluate system performance rigorously
• Experience writing clear technical design documents and driving alignment

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or managing developer tooling or internal platforms
• Familiarity with agent frameworks or orchestration systems
• Experience in monorepo environments
• Startup or early-stage team experience (0→1 or small team scaling)

Responsibilities

• Make every engineer more productive by eliminating repetitive workflows through AI agents
• Define and own the agent roadmap: what to automate, in what order, and how to measure success
• Build and lead a small, high-impact team of engineers
• Contribute hands-on to prototyping, coding, and unblocking technical challenges
• Establish evaluation frameworks for agent performance (golden tasks, regression sets, replay, LLM-as-judge)
• Partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, and DevX teams to integrate agents into core workflows
• Drive high engineering standards through design docs, RFCs, and strong execution

Benefits

• Comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources
• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet 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
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed