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Staff+ Security Engineer, Core Command

Join Verkada as a Staff Security Engineer to enhance security practices and tools in a rapidly growing AI-powered platform.

Location
San Mateo, CA United States
Compensation
$200k–$300k/yr
Level
staff
Type
full time

Posted by employer 2 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

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Skills & Technologies

AWS Go Python GCP Flexible on stack

Role intensity

40% coding

AI in the day-to-day

Verkada uses AI to enhance security solutions across various applications.

Requirements

Experience
7+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Visa
Sponsorship available

Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement.

Benefits

Professional Development Stipend Wellness/Fitness Benefits Flexible PTO Commuter Benefits Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff+ Security Engineer will work closely with the Core Command engineering team to integrate security practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Key skills include expertise in cloud services like AWS or GCP, along with a strong background in security engineering and coding in Python or Go. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over seven years of experience who can effectively communicate and collaborate across teams. Verkada's focus on innovative security solutions positions this role at the forefront of a rapidly evolving tech landscape.

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

What's the salary range?
Verkada lists $200,000–$300,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Staff+ Security Engineer, Core Command role.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, GCP, Go, Python.
Does Verkada sponsor work visas for this role?
Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
What seniority level is this role?
Verkada targets staff-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Staff+ Security Engineer, Core Command role at Verkada.

From the original posting

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

We are looking for a security engineering leader to collaborate with the Core Command engineering team. As an embedded partner for the team, you will perform threat models, security design reviews and refine security tools that facilitate security throughout the SDLC. You will define the security roadmap, requirements and priorities to expand and enhance the Verkada Command platform core security services (Authentication, Authorization, Users, Roles, Audit), web frontend, and mobile applications.

What You'll Do

  • Facilitate the security baked into our applications throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Evangelize software security best practices through training and information sharing
  • Partner closely with engineering and product teams to improve the security of Verkada’s products and exceed customers’ expectations
  • Explore innovative solutions to enable Verkada business instead of “Security says No”
  • Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute on goals, priorities and process
  • Set up security tooling and secure defaults to ensure software security best practices
  • Perform architecture analysis, threat modeling and technical design reviews of sensitive features and infrastructure
  • Create and operate a bug bounty program
  • Triage and recommend solutions for security bugs from tools, third party assessments and bug bounties
  • Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader Verkada security program
  • Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally via security conferences and blogs
  • Help your peer engineers grow their own security reasoning and knowledge

What You Bring

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
  • Strong experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud service provider
  • 7+ years of experience as a security engineer in an advisory role
  • Understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations
  • Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new security products, features, and strategies
  • Coding ability. You will sometimes write production Python/Go code, security peer review code, build proofs of concept or implement automation scripts
  • Excellent collaborative skills
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication
  • Experience with most of the following:
    • Security Development Lifecycle
    • Threat Modeling
    • Architecture Analysis
    • Technical Design Review
    • Security Code Review

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
  • 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
$200,000$300,000 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.

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