Critical Accounts Program, Engineer

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San Mateo, CA
In-Office
120K-160K Annually
Mid level
Cloud • Hardware • Security • Software
Our mission is to protect people and places in a privacy-sensitive way.
The Role
As a Critical Accounts Engineer, you will manage escalated customer cases, provide solutions, and advocate for clients in high-stakes situations. Prepare to travel and coordinate with teams to ensure client satisfaction and long-term partnerships.
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Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100 companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.

The Mission

Verkada is dedicated to leading the physical security world into the future with a customer-centric approach and takes pride in its excellent documentation, support, and sales engineering teams. But sometimes things go wrong.

The Critical Accounts Program (CAP) is our "last line of defense" when we are at risk of losing a relationship. As a CAP Engineer, you don’t just manage cases; you drop into and access high-stakes situations, marshall the resources needed to stabilize the client, and ensure they are happy before moving to the next mission.

Imagine a major hospital system goes live with Verkada, but a network configuration issue prevents their cameras from recording during a critical event. While others might see a ticket, a Critical Accounts Engineer sees a partnership in jeopardy. You are the one who gets the call, jumps on a plane that evening, and walks into their command center the next morning to lead our engineers and their IT staff toward a solution.

How You’ll Serve Our Customers
  • Rapid Incident Command: Take end-to-end ownership of escalated customer cases, driving swift, high-impact solutions to restore confidence.
  • Executive Advocacy: Serve as the single point of contact for customer executives, providing transparent diagnosis and expedited problem resolution.
  • On-Site Deployment: Be ready to travel at a moment’s notice to meet with customers face-to-face or perform in-depth on-site troubleshooting.
  • Strategic Alignment: Coordinate across Engineering, Product, Sales, and Support to prioritize the fixes our customers need most.
  • Insights for Growth: Translate customer pain points into actionable insights that influence the long-term product roadmap and strengthen long-term partnerships.
Who You Are
  • Technical: You know “a lot about something.”  We don’t expect you to know networking or physical security in depth before starting, but whatever technology you worked with in the past, you know to a deep level.  For example, if you were in wide area networking, you know the nuance of how BGP and DNS work.  Or if you worked in storage, you know a lot about file systems.
  • Proven Problem Solver: You have 3–6+ years of experience getting things done.  We’re less concerned about what, exactly, so much as that you have had a real impact.
  • Calm Under Pressure: You have a demonstrated ability to manage high-level customers and mission-critical situations with composure.
  • Detail-Oriented: You are highly organized and capable of managing multiple complex escalations simultaneously.
Why Join the CAP Team?

Joining the CAP team offers a unique impact where, in an established company of over 2,500 people growing very quickly, you will be "one of one", a specialist with a role unlike any other in the organization. You are joining a new team that has already seen significant success over the past year and is now expanding to meet the needs of our global customer base. In this role, you will develop senior-level decision-making and communication skills while working directly with Verkada’s top decision-makers. Ultimately, you will shine a light on the issues that matter most to ensure no customer is left behind, strengthening Verkada's most critical relationships.

Additional Information

You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.

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
$120,000$160,000 USD
Verkada 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. 

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The Company
HQ: San Mateo, CA
2,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Verkada is the world’s largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform, offering a seamless blend of tech and safety. With six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace systems, and intercoms — all integrated on one cloud platform, Verkada is designed for simplicity and scalability. Our real-time insights help organizations keep their spaces safe and comfortable while taking swift action to minimize security risks, workplace hassles, and costly inefficiencies.

Founded in 2016 and backed by over $460M in funding, we’ve grown fast, with 16 offices spread across four continents, 2,000+ employees, and 26,000+ customers in 85+ countries — including 82 of the Fortune 500.

Created by Stanford computer scientists and security experts, alongside Cisco Meraki’s co-founder and COO Hans Robertson, Verkada calls San Mateo, CA home. We also have offices in Salt Lake City, Tampa, Phoenix, Austin, London, Sydney, Taiwan, New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Mexico City, Seattle, Tokyo, and Korea.

Why Work With Us

Verkada’s products start with safety – video security cameras, door-based access control and alarms, and extend to operations, environmental sensors, visitor and mailroom management.

All of our products can be accessed within one cloud ecosystem, bringing the intuitive and easy-to-use nature of consumer security products to the levels of scale

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