Engineering Manager, Agentic Workflows

About Verkada

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. With more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, over $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47, and more, Verkada is at the center of the Physical AI revolution.

Our platform impacts communities worldwide—from retailers using agentic AI to deter theft, to warehouses ensuring team safety with AI-powered PPE alerts, to schools triggering real-time lockdowns during threats. Today, over 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About The Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a new team focused on building AI agents that improve engineering velocity, reliability, and developer experience across the company. This team will operate with a 0→1 charter inside our Infrastructure / DevX organization, developing agentic systems that automate workflows such as CI failure triage, autonomous deployments, incident response, and proactive bug detection. The work will have a broad impact by reducing toil and enabling faster iteration.

This role is both strategic and hands-on: you will define the roadmap, build and grow the team, and actively contribute to prototyping and development.

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

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 Have

• 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)

Benefits

• Premiums 100% covered for the employee under at least one healthcare plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Health Savings 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
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Verkada sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role.

Pay

Estimated Annual Pay Range: $200,000—$340,000 USD (comprised of base compensation and commissions, if applicable). Additional compensation may include sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs).