About the RoleWe 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 01->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 across all engineering teams 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.
What You9ll Do- 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
What You Bring- 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 (01->1 or small team scaling)
US Employee BenefitsVerkada 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.
Annual Pay RangeAt Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate9s skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Estimated Annual Pay Range
$200,000-$340,000 USD
