Software Engineering Manager - Alarms
About The Position
The Alarms team builds the response layer: the software that decides what happens in the minutes after an alarm fires. It uses real-time video, audio, and sensor data to analyze incidents, filter false alarms, and coordinate verifiable action. This platform serves as the central intelligence for our alarm product, seamlessly combining AI-driven automation with human judgment to protect people and spaces at scale. As an Engineering Manager, you will own this system across three surfaces: the customer incident experience, the monitoring software our human operators use to handle alarms at scale, and the integrations that carry an incident out to emergency dispatch.
Requirements
- 2+ years leading, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams.
- 5+ 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 Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Define where AI acts autonomously and where a human decides, in partnership with the product and our monitoring operations team.
- Own the real-time workflow engine that models response actions after an alarm is triggered, and the vision-language pipeline that adapts SOPs mid-incident.
- Set and hold the reliability bar for a system with no acceptable quiet failure mode.
- Hire and grow the team
- Partner with the PM on the roadmap, and with the operators who use the monitoring tools daily.
- Work across product teams to extend the response layer into the rest of the Verkada platform.
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
