Senior-Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity
Verkada · San Mateo, CA · 6 days ago
On-siteEngineering$130k–$280k/yrFull-time
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.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
Pay
- Estimated Annual Pay Range: $130,000—$280,000 USD
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.