The Core Values That Guide Verkada’s Engineers
Martin Hunt
Chief Technology Officer
Our Why: Rethinking what it means to be physically safe.
At Verkada, our mission is to protect people and property in a way that respects individuals' privacy. We operate the world’s largest cloud-based physical security platform and maintain seven hardware product lines: security cameras, door-based access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, guest, and mailroom management. Customers around the world — including schools, hospitals, warehouses, and retail stores — trust us to keep their people and property safe and secure every day.
Maintaining our platform and products is a complex task. Verkada engineers build systems, machine learning models, and computer vision frameworks that balance a mixture of edge and cloud computing while optimizing for latency, bandwidth, and speed. Our infrastructure is vast and complex — we manage millions of CPU cores around the world — but we stay relentlessly focused on keeping the customer experience simple and easy to use.
Our How: The values that guide us.
We've achieved all of this scale and maintained high-quality products, in part, by empowering small teams of individuals with a high degree of ownership and autonomy. One of the advantages of working at Verkada is that we provide the benefits of larger, established players — while also enabling engineers to make an immediate, tangible impact on the product and organization.
Over the past twelve months, our team has more than doubled in size. We want this new crop of employees to connect with the values we established when the company was much smaller. To that end, we’ve asked team members to share what each of these values means to them — and how they are applied in practice here at Verkada. Looking ahead, these values will continue to guide us and help us stay true to our mission as we continue to grow.
Ownership: Smaller teams help encourage autonomy and create a more pronounced sense of ownership. Not only does this result in building features and code with more care, but it also leads to higher engagement and can contribute to overall job satisfaction.
Integrity: We collectively put the best interest of our customers and the communities they protect else in every decision we make — no matter how big or small.
Persistence and Grit: Being part of a fast-growing startup is not without its challenges. We learn from our mistakes and triumphs, we iterate and pivot when things aren’t working, and we persist no matter how difficult it might be, with our vision at the forefront of all we do.
Bias Towards Action: We don’t compromise quality for speed and ship fragile code that will break easily. Rather, we take initiative to move things forward quickly in ways that meaningfully contribute to the advancement of our product.
Craft: As technical experts in our field, we devise novel and innovative ideas that solve customer problems in a way that products from our competitors don’t. We don’t want to be great, we want to be the best.
Teamwork: We are all laser-focused on the priorities in front of us, and collaborating with and relying upon our peers for input, feedback, and even motivation ultimately enables us to more effectively achieve our goals.
Join our world-class team.
We are always looking for technical talent to help us reimagine the enterprise security industry and find innovative solutions to big customer challenges. We’re leveraging the power of computer vision, machine learning, and edge computing to improve safety at scale.
Find your next job at verkada.com/careers.
