Senior Android Engineer - Mobile Platform & Systems

Verkada
San Mateo +1 more
On-site

In the 12 months to 30 Jun 2026, Verkada filed 58 H-1B positions classified as Software Developers. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, LCA disclosure data. A record of filings already made, not a commitment to sponsor.

Who this role is best for

Experienced Android engineers with expertise in Jetpack Compose and hardware integration will find this platform-focused role at Verkada rewarding.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with deep Android SDK knowledge and a focus on system-level integration
    — “deep mastery of Kotlin and the Android SDK”
  • Individuals who thrive in cross-functional, hardware-software collaboration environments
    — “Partner daily with hardware and firmware teams”
  • Engineers with a track record of scaling UI libraries and improving developer workflows
    — “experience scaling shared UI libraries across multiple teams”

Things to consider

  • The role requires strong attention to release engineering and Play Store management
    — “Experience managing the complexity of the Google Play Store release cycle”
  • Candidates must be prepared to handle low-level connectivity protocols like BLE and NFC
    — “Hands-on experience with Bluetooth (BLE), NFC, or the nuances of Android background execution limits”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience with offline-first networking and secure data transit
    — “intelligent caching, and secure data transit between native services and the cloud”
  • Demonstrate your ability to optimize CI/CD pipelines and test automation strategies
    — “optimizing our CI/CD pipelines, expanding test automation strategies”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • maintaining and evolving Native Component Library
  • optimizing CI/CD pipelines
  • implementing low-level protocols
  • optimizing type-safe communication layer
Typical background
Android developmentmobile infrastructuresystem integration

Skills & requirements

Required

Android DevelopmentKotlinJetpack ComposeCI/CDNetworkingSystem IntegrationWeb Technology

Preferred

Socratic GuidingMontessori MethodProject-based Learning

Stack & domain

Android DevelopmentKotlinJetpack ComposeCI/CDTest AutomationNetworkingProtocolsWeb-based ComponentsServer-driven UIMobileSystems

About the role

Original posting from Verkada via Greenhouse

Who We Are

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. 

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries. 

About the Role

Verkada is the leading cloud-managed physical security platform, uniting hardware, software, and AI to deliver enterprise-scale security. As our ecosystem grows, our Mobile Core team is pivoting to a high-leverage Platform model.

The Mobile Core team provides the underlying systems, frameworks, and components used by product teams across the company to build high-performance mobile experiences. In this role, you will be a key technical contributor "Native Systems Layer"—ensuring that our mobile foundation is reliable, scalable, and easy for other teams to build upon. You will also focus on the specialized native challenges that cannot be solved with web technology, ensuring the Verkada mobile experience remains fast, secure, and deeply integrated with the Android OS.

What You’ll Do

Native UI Platform: Maintain and evolve our existing Native Component Library built with Jetpack Compose. You will ensure these "Lego bricks" are scalable, accessible, and easily consumable by other product teams to ensure a consistent, fluid experience.

Platform Infrastructure & DX: Elevate the "Developer Experience" for Android. This includes optimizing our CI/CD pipelines, expanding test automation strategies, and hardening an automated, multi-team release process.

Network & Reliability Layer: Maintain a high-performance networking stack that handles the complexities of offline-first synchronization, intelligent caching, and secure data transit between native services and the cloud.

Systems & Hardware Integration: Own the implementation of low-level protocols (BLE, NFC, and custom Wi-Fi handshakes) that allow phones to talk to our physical hardware securely and reliably.

The Native-Web Bridge: Optimize the type-safe communication layer that allows dynamic web-based components to interact securely with native device sensors, secure enclaves, and core system logic.

Architecture Evolution: Act as a technical consultant to other product teams, evaluating new patterns (such as Server-Driven UI) to determine how we can best balance native performance with global engineering velocity.

What You Bring

6+ years of professional Android development with a deep mastery of Kotlin and the Android SDK.

Infrastructure & Tooling: Strong experience with mobile CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bitrise) and a "test-first" mentality. You enjoy building tools that make other engineers more productive.

Networking & Protocols: Deep understanding of the networking stack (OkHttp, Retrofit, Protobuf) and experience handling unreliable network conditions at scale.

Hardware & Connectivity: Hands-on experience with Bluetooth (BLE), NFC, or the nuances of Android background execution limits.

Modern UI Mastery: Expert proficiency in Jetpack Compose and experience scaling shared UI libraries across multiple teams.

Release Engineering: Experience managing the complexity of the Google Play Store release cycle for apps with high deployment frequency and multiple contributors.

Why Join Us

Force Multiplier: You aren't just shipping features; you are building the foundation. Every improvement you make to the platform is a win for dozens of other engineers and thousands of customers.

The "Hard" Problems: You get to focus on the deep-tech challenges that web technology can't touch: hardware handshakes, battery-efficient backgrounding, and high-performance infrastructure.

Direct Impact: Work at a company with proven product-market fit, where your work directly protects people and assets worldwide.

Onsite Collaboration: Partner daily with hardware and firmware teams in an environment that values technical excellence and fast iteration.

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.

Annual Pay Range

At 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 candidate's 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$150,000—$265,000 USDVerkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy. 

Source: Verkada careers (Greenhouse)

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