Verkada Inc.

Staff+ Software Engineer, Security Infrastructure

Verkada Inc.$200K — $300K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience focused on security
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Experience leveraging AI in security practices
  • Strong collaborative skills with cross-team interaction
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Interest in identifying security weaknesses and mitigations
  • Willing to work onsite five days a week

Responsibilities

  • Lead initiatives to eliminate vulnerabilities in the software development lifecycle
  • Develop tools that facilitate secure software development for engineers
  • Automate security engineering practices using AI
  • Collaborate with engineering leaders to align on security goals and processes
  • Partner with CISO to enhance security and privacy programs
  • Share security knowledge through conferences, presentations, and open source contributions
  • Execute experiments and prototypes to drive adoption of security solutions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare programs with significant employee premium coverage
  • Nationwide medical, vision, and dental insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contributions
  • Expanded mental health support services
  • Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
  • Generous paid time off policies including holidays and flexible PTO
  • Professional development stipend for continuous learning
  • Wellness and fitness benefits provided
  • Healthy lunches offered daily
  • Commuter benefits for onsite employees
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Verkada Security Team is a software engineering team at its core- we build the right way to do software security. In this role, you will scale Verkada's security in the SDLC through automation, libraries, tools and frameworks. The role's broad scope means you will be writing code in a variety of technology stacks and collaborating with engineering teams across Verkada's Command platform.
What You'll Do
  • As a Verkada Builder, you will have a broad scope of ownership and will lead initiatives to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities from Verkada. This includes wearing a PM hat when needed, building experiments and prototypes, driving adoption of your tools, and demonstrating your impact on the organization
  • Build tools to make it easy for Verkada's software engineers to do the right thing for security as they build products and infrastructure
  • Leverage AI to automate Verkada's security engineering practices
  • Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute on security goals, priorities and process
  • Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader Verkada security and privacy programs
  • Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally via security conferences, presentations, blogs and open source
What You Bring
  • You will write code every day
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
  • Masters or PhD in security is a bonus
  • 7+ years of experience as a software engineer that has worked on security problems
  • You can just break things - interest in security weaknesses, attacks, and mitigations
  • Experience leveraging AI as you build
  • Excellent collaborative skills
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication
  • Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week
US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
  • 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
Additional Information
  • We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.


Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$200,000-$300,000 USD

About Verkada Inc.

Verkada Inc. is a technology company that specializes in security cameras and video surveillance systems. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Verkada's cameras are designed to be easy to install and use, and they offer features such as facial recognition and license plate recognition. The company's customers include schools, hospitals, and businesses. Verkada has raised over $140 million in funding to date and is backed by several venture capital firms.
Learn more about Verkada Inc.
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2016

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