Join Verkada as a Staff Security Engineer to enhance security practices and tools within the Developer Experience engineering team.
Posted by employer 4 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 3 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
Verkada uses AI-powered solutions for security applications.
Requirements
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff+ Security Engineer will work closely with the Developer Experience team to integrate security practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Key responsibilities include conducting threat models, performing security design reviews, and enhancing security tools to support software engineers. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over seven years of experience in security engineering or related fields, who possess strong coding skills and a collaborative mindset. Verkada's focus on innovative security solutions positions this role at the forefront of a rapidly evolving industry.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Verkada's careers page October 27, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
- Starts above 28% of 53 comparable staff security roles in United States that list Python we track (median $210,000 across 29 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 45.9% of 135 comparable staff security roles in United States; SIEM appears in 3.7% of 135 comparable staff security roles in United States.
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, Developer Tools role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Architecture Analysis, GCP, Go, Open Policy Agent, 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, Developer Tools role at Verkada.
From the original posting
Who We Are
About the Role
We are looking for a security engineering leader to collaborate with the Developer Experience 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 tools, AI agents, and systems that empower our software engineers.
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, software engineer, site reliability engineer, or security consultant
- 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
- Open Policy Agent
- SIEM
- 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
Annual Pay Range
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
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