3 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Facilitate security throughout applications’ software development lifecycles
- Evangelize software security best practices through training and information sharing
- Partner with engineering and product teams to improve product security
- Define the security roadmap, requirements, priorities, and processes for developer security tools, AI agents, and systems
- Set up security tooling and secure defaults
- Perform architecture analysis, threat modeling, and technical design reviews for sensitive features and infrastructure
- Create and operate a bug bounty program
- Triage security bugs from tools, third-party assessments, and bug bounties and recommend solutions
- Collaborate with engineering leaders, the CISO, and the security team to advance Verkada’s security program
- Share security expertise through conferences and blogs
- Help engineers develop their security reasoning and knowledge
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience as a security engineer, software engineer, site reliability engineer, or security consultant
- Strong experience with AWS, GCP, or another cloud service provider
- Understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks, and mitigations
- Ability to write production Python and Go code, conduct security code reviews, build proofs of concept, and implement automation scripts
- Experience with most of the following: Security Development Lifecycle, threat modeling, architecture analysis, technical design review, security code review, Open Policy Agent, and SIEM
- Excellent collaboration, written communication, and verbal communication skills
- Enthusiasm for learning new security products, features, and strategies
Benefits
- Healthcare, vision, and dental coverage with employee premiums fully covered under at least one plan and family premiums covered at 80% under all plans
- Health Savings Account with employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
- Paid holidays, extended holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness and fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
- Employment visa sponsorship is available
Tech Stack
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About Verkada
Verkada builds a cloud-managed physical security platform for enterprises, combining security cameras, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management with web and mobile software. It sells hardware plus software licenses through a subscription model to organizations like schools, retailers, and industrial sites. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Verkada reports 30,000+ customers worldwide and is privately held.