Verkada Internships 2027: Programs, Pay and How to Apply

Verkada runs a structured software engineering internship out of its San Mateo headquarters, with tracks in frontend, backend, mobile and AI engineering and a monthly housing stipend on top of hourly pay. It hosted around 30 interns across schools in the US and Canada in its 2025 class, and 2027 postings will follow the same pattern once the company opens each season's roles.

Verkada isn't a household name the way some security-camera brands are, but it's grown fast and shows up constantly on ApplyBolt's board under full-time engineering and go-to-market roles. Here's what the internship actually looks like and how to tell it apart from the company's other early-career programs.

What Verkada actually does

Verkada builds AI-powered physical security systems: cameras, access control readers, environmental sensors and alarm systems, all managed from one cloud platform called Command. Instead of selling a single camera, Verkada sells the whole security stack to organizations like schools, hospitals, warehouses and offices, which means the software work spans everything from real-time video streaming to fleet management for thousands of connected devices per customer.

That scale is part of why the engineering internship has real technical depth. Interns aren't building demo features off to the side. They ship into the same Command platform that customers use to monitor buildings, alongside full-time engineers.

Internship tracks and what interns actually work on

Every track runs onsite at Verkada's San Mateo, California headquarters. Recent postings have asked for candidates actively pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field and graduating around June 2027, though the exact class-year requirement shifts by season and team.

Pay and benefits

Verkada hasn't published an official intern pay scale, but recent postings describe a competitive hourly wage on top of a monthly housing stipend for interns relocating to the Bay Area. Interns also get daily catered lunch, snacks and drinks onsite, intern-only events, and direct access to company leadership through talks and small-group sessions, according to Verkada's own recruiting materials.

Verkada's other early-career programs

The software engineering internship isn't the only path in. The Associate Solutions Engineering Program is a separate six-month track that gives early-career hires hands-on experience across Verkada's full product suite, building skills in networking, electrical engineering, security infrastructure and cloud architecture. Verkada also runs Sales Development Programs for candidates with zero to two years of experience, placing them into Associate Account Executive or Enterprise Development Representative roles with structured training and mentorship.

These are worth knowing about even if you're set on engineering, since the interview process, timeline and eligibility differ from the summer internship, and each one competes for a different pool of applicants.

How competitive is a Verkada internship?

Verkada is small relative to the big tech names most students default to, which cuts both ways. There are fewer seats than at a company hosting hundreds of interns, so the frontend, backend, mobile and AI tracks each fill a small class. On the other hand, Verkada draws a lot less applicant volume than the household-name tech companies, since plenty of students simply don't think to apply to a physical-security company. A strong coding background and genuine interest in what the company builds go further here than a famous resume line.

Expect a standard software engineering process: an online coding assessment first, then one or more technical interviews covering data structures and problem solving, plus a conversation about which track fits your background and interests. Since interns ship into the same Command platform customers use, interviewers care about whether you can reason clearly about a real system, not just pass a timed test.

Timing and how to apply

Verkada opens internship postings by season rather than keeping one class open year-round, so a 2027-specific listing may not exist yet even when the program itself is confirmed to run again. As of this guide's last update, ApplyBolt's live board shows dozens of open full-time roles at Verkada across engineering, sales and operations, which is a reasonable signal the company is still hiring and growing, even before summer 2027 internship postings go live.

Check the roles below for what's currently open, and set a search alert if nothing internship-titled shows up yet. For the broader technical internship market, see our summer 2027 SWE internships guide, and for how Verkada's pay compares across companies, see our highest paying internships 2027 guide.