Looking for senior software engineer jobs in San Mateo with visa sponsorship? Verkada is hiring a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for its Developer AI team at its San Mateo headquarters.
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Senior Software Engineer Jobs in San Mateo: Overview
| Job Title | Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Developer AI |
| Employer | Verkada |
| Location | San Mateo, CA |
| Salary | $180,000–$280,000 per year |
| Job Type | Full-time onsite |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Visa Sponsorship | Confirmed: Verkada sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role |
| Closing Date | Not specified in the available job information |
About the Employer
Verkada is transforming how organisations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms and visitor management. It has more than 30,000 customers, a $5.8B valuation and more than $1 billion in annualised bookings.
Job Responsibilities
- Build AI infrastructure that increases the productivity of all engineers at Verkada
- Design systems that run AI agents asynchronously, balancing security, cost and usability
- Help define the Developer AI roadmap and lead planning
- Create evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance
- Partner with security, product and infrastructure teams to launch and support services
- Document and teach AI best practices to engineers across the company
- Help with growing the team
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven experience shipping production systems, including agentic or automation-heavy workflows
- Strong hands-on coding ability in Go and Python
- Experience building systems that interact with APIs, tools and external services
- Demonstrated ability to define metrics and evaluate system performance rigorously
- Experience writing clear technical design documents and driving alignment
Visa Sponsorship and International Applicants
Verkada confirms it sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If an offer is made, the company will make every reasonable effort to get a successful applicant a visa. The role is onsite at HQ in San Mateo, CA.
Salary and Benefits
- $180,000 to $280,000 USD annual pay range
- Healthcare programmes with premiums 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- 401(k) match starting January 2027 that vests on 2-year anniversary
- HSA with annual employer contributions and FSA
- Expanded mental health support, paid parental leave and fertility benefits
- Paid holidays, flexible PTO, professional development stipend, wellness/fitness benefits, healthy lunches and commuter benefits
- Visa sponsorship confirmed
- Strong AI developer tools focus
- Competitive pay range
- Onsite in San Mateo required
- 5+ years experience needed
- No closing date specified
How to Apply
Apply through the official Greenhouse posting. A resume/CV is required. Cover letter is not mentioned as mandatory.
Application Tips
- Highlight experience with agent frameworks, monorepo environments or developer productivity tools if available
- Demonstrate production experience with Go and Python
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