Staff+ Software Engineer, Agentic Software Security

Verkada; San Mateo; On-site; PHP 12,563,000 - 18,844,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs

Vision and dental coverage

HSA with employer contributions

Fertility benefits

Paid holidays

Professional development stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a Security Engineer who will scale security in the SDLC through automation, libraries, tools and frameworks. You will write code daily and own security initiatives across Verkada’s software stack.

The role requires 7+ years in software engineering focused on security, strong collaboration, and a passion for AI-driven security practices. Onsite five days/week is expected, with a comprehensive benefits program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Masters or PhD in security is a bonus.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience focused on security.
• You can just break things - interest in security weaknesses, attacks, and mitigations.
• Experience leveraging AI as you build.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities from Verkada.
• Build tools to help engineers do the right thing for security.
• Leverage AI to automate Verkada’s security engineering practices.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to define and pursue security goals.
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow security programs.
• Share security experience via conferences, blogs, and open source.

Skills

Code daily

Security engineering

AI in security

Collaboration

Written and verbal communication

Onsite availability

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent

Masters or PhD in security (bonus)

Job description

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

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

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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