Staff Frontend Engineer - Design Systems

Verkada is looking for an experienced front-end engineer to join their core engineering group and focus on design systems and UI architecture. The role involves building, scaling, and maintaining the foundational component library that powers enterprise applications, collaborating with designers and product teams, and ensuring consistency and accessibility across the platform.

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience in front-end web development with a strong focus on UI/UX
• Expertise working with modern web technologies, specifically React, TypeScript, and modern styling solutions
• Proven track record of building, maintaining, or significantly contributing to design systems, component libraries, or comprehensive UI frameworks
• Tooling proficiency: Deep experience with component-driven development and documentation tools like Storybook
• Accessibility focus: Strong, practical knowledge of web accessibility standards (ARIA, WCAG) and how to build compliant components
• Design fluency: Experience collaborating directly with designers and a strong understanding of design tokens, typography, layout systems, and responsive design
• Degree in Computer Science, HCI, or a similar technical/design field of study

Benefits

• Comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources
• Healthcare programs with 100% covered premiums for employees and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• 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 paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits