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
- 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
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
- 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).
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