Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead broad-scope initiatives to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities across Verkada.
- Build tools that help software engineers implement security correctly across products and infrastructure.
- Scale security in the SDLC through automation, libraries, tools, and frameworks.
- Build experiments and prototypes, drive adoption of security tools, and demonstrate organizational impact.
- Use AI to automate security engineering practices.
- Collaborate with engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute security goals, priorities, and processes.
- Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow Verkada’s security and privacy programs.
- Share security expertise through conferences, presentations, blogs, and open source.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience is required.
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience working on security problems is required.
- Must write code daily and have an interest in security weaknesses, attacks, and mitigations.
- Experience leveraging AI while building is required.
- Strong collaboration, written communication, and verbal communication skills are required.
- A master’s or PhD in security is a bonus.
- Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.
- Employment visa sponsorship is available.
Benefits
- Healthcare, medical, vision, and dental coverage, including employer-covered premiums under specified plans
- HSA employer contributions and FSA options
- Mental health support, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and fertility stipend
- Paid holidays, extended holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend, wellness/fitness benefits, daily healthy lunches, and commuter benefits
- Onsite work five days per week
- Employment visa sponsorship available
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About Verkada
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.