Verkada

Staff Software Engineer - Detection and Response Platform

Verkada
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3 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build, operate, and improve security monitoring, detection, and response infrastructure
  • Onboard new systems and services to the SIEM and tune alerts for high signal
  • Automate data enrichment and incident response workflows
  • Facilitate incident response processes and tabletop exercises
  • Collaborate with the CISO and security team to expand Verkada’s security program
  • Share security expertise through conferences and blogs
  • Mentor peer engineers in security reasoning and knowledge

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 7–10+ years of experience as a software engineer, security engineer, site reliability engineer, or security consultant
  • Experience building robust and scalable products in public clouds, including AWS
  • Proficiency programming in Golang or Python
  • Familiarity with continuous integration and Infrastructure as Code
  • Experience designing and optimizing high-throughput ETL pipelines
  • Interest in learning new security products, features, and strategies
  • Excellent collaboration, written communication, and verbal communication skills
  • Willingness and ability to work onsite five days per week

Benefits

  • Healthcare, medical, vision, and dental coverage, including at least one plan with fully covered employee premiums
  • 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, fertility stipend, and wellness/fitness benefits
  • Healthy lunches provided daily and commuter benefits
  • Onsite work five days per week

Tech Stack

Categories

Data EngineeringDevOpsSecurity
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About Verkada

1,001-5,000 employees

Transforming how organizations protect people and places. Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive platform that includes video security, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. Today, more than 30,000 organizations, including 100+ Fortune 500 companies, rely on Verkada. With over $1B in annualized bookings, a $5.8B valuation, and backing from NVIDIA, CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, and Next47, we’re scaling rapidly across the global market. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it. From retail stores preventing theft before it happens, to warehouses using AI-powered alerts to improve worker safety, to schools detecting and responding to threats in seconds, not minutes, Verkada is redefining what modern physical security can do. More than 2 million devices are now deployed across 170+ countries, and we’re just getting started.