Join Verkada as a Staff+ Security Engineer to lead IT infrastructure security and enhance corporate AI security strategies.
Posted by employer 5 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 7 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 7 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Manage corporate AI security strategy
- Design identity and access management controls
- Lead endpoint security strategy
- Define security best practices
- Support compliance efforts
Must have
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent
- 7+ years of experience as a security engineer or IT systems engineer
- Understanding of security weaknesses and mitigations
- Strong understanding of identity management and endpoint security
- Scripting ability in Python
Nice to have
- Experience in a high-growth startup environment
- Experience aligning on security risks with stakeholders
AI in the day-to-day
AI and automation will be leveraged where possible.
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 at Verkada will focus on developing and enhancing security measures for IT infrastructure, ensuring the protection of employees and data. Key skills include expertise in identity management, endpoint security, and scripting for automation, particularly in cloud environments. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over seven years of experience in security engineering, especially those who thrive in high-growth startup settings. The role involves collaboration across teams to implement security best practices and support compliance efforts.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 21, 2026. Last confirmed on Verkada's careers page October 21, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
- Starts above 25% of 48 comparable staff security roles in United States that list Python we track (median $210,000 across 28 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 45.6% of 125 comparable staff security roles in United States; Endpoint Security appears in 0.8% of 125 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, IT and Corporate Security role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, Access Control, Cloud, Endpoint Security, Python, identity management.
- 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, IT and Corporate Security role at Verkada.
From the original posting
Who We Are
About the Role
We’re looking for an IT Security Leader that will partner with our IT Team and other system owners to set the requirements and priorities for IT infrastructure security. Reporting to the CISO, you will design, implement, and continuously improve the systems that protect our employees, data, and operations. AI and automation will be leveraged where possible. Along the way, you’ll support risk management, compliance, and incident response operations.
What You'll Do
- Manage and implement corporate AI security strategy
- Design and implement identity and access management controls (SSO, MFA, RBAC, conditional access policies, Zero Trust Network Access)
- Lead endpoint security strategy (MDM, EDR, DLP, device hardening)
- Define and enforce security best practices across the organization
- Partner with IT, Engineering, and Security teams to secure internal systems, endpoints, SaaS applications, and corporate infrastructure
- Support compliance efforts (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
- Build security automation, tooling and agents through orchestration platform to ensure security best practices and governance
- Respond to internal security events and alerts
What You Bring
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
- 7+ years of experience as a security engineer or IT systems engineer working on security
- Understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations
- Strong understanding of identity management, endpoint security, and cloud-based SaaS environments
- Scripting ability. You will write Python scripts for security and compliance automation
- Experience aligning on security risks and plans with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Outstanding written and verbal communication
- Experience in a high-growth startup environment
- 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
- Fertility Stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Annual Pay Range
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
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