About the Role

We are actively looking for a talented software engineer to join the Infrastructure team with a focus on improving Engineering Productivity, specifically our Bazel and C++ infrastructure. Example projects include optimizing Bazel, extending and onboarding services to Bazel, improving C++ support through Bazel and our entire infrastructure. This will have a cross-company impact allowing engineers to quickly iterate locally on microservices and firmware.

We are committed to a thriving in-office culture. This role requires you to be onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA (with flexibility to work from home).

What You'll Do

• Make every engineer's day-to-day productive and enjoyable!
• Define engineering tooling roadmap
• Own Kubernetes deployment and development tooling
• Build various software and hardware testing frameworks
• Provide technical support for engineers on other teams
• Help with growing the team

What You Bring

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar position
  Build Systems & Tooling:
  

  • Strong experience with C/C++ build systems (Make, CMake, Meson, or similar)
  • Deep understanding of C/C++ compilation, linking, and dependency management
  • Experience with build system migration and modernization
  Bazel Expertise:
  

  • Proven experience with Bazel in large-scale monorepo environments
  • Proficiency in authoring and maintaining custom Bazel rules
  • Experience designing and implementing Bazel toolchains for C/C++ builds
  • Knowledge of Bazel remote execution and caching strategies
  Nice to Have:
  

  • Experience with bzlmod (Bazel's modern dependency management)
  • Familiarity with cross-platform C/C++ builds (Linux, macOS, Windows)
  • Background in build system performance optimization and incremental compilation
  • Background in firmware development and deployment

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, firmwide 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.