Application Security Engineer - Federal / US Government

Verkada; San Mateo, California, City of Rochester (CA, MO, NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Application Security Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in enhancing the security of innovative cloud-based solutions. This position offers a unique opportunity to partner with engineering teams to integrate security best practices into the development lifecycle, ensuring the safety and integrity of cutting-edge products. With a commitment to employee well-being, the company provides generous benefits including unlimited paid time off and wellness allowances. If you're passionate about security and eager to contribute to a transformative industry, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Vision Insurance

Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Wellness Allowance

Healthy Lunches and Dinners

Generous Medical and Dental Coverage

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of experience in security engineering or related fields.
• Strong experience with cloud service providers like AWS or GCP.
• Ability to write production code in Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate security throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve product security.
• Set up security tooling and perform architecture analysis.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Python

Go

Security Development Lifecycle

Threat Modeling

Architecture Analysis

Technical Design Review

Security Code Review

Open Policy Agent

SIEM

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Job description

Application Security Engineer - Federal / US Government

vision insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays

Verkada is a leader in cloud-based B2B physical security. Verkada offers six product lines - video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms - integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.

Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.

Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices across three continents, 2,100+ full-time employees and 30,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

At Verkada, we're rethinking what it means to be physically safe. Today, we build security cameras that detect action, identify danger and help keep people and places safe and secure. Using a combination of software and hardware, we're transforming an industry that has seen little innovation for decades-and we already support thousands of customers. But this is just the beginning. We envision a world in which security systems feel as seamless and modern as the organizations they protect and our enterprise solution becomes a model for not just business security, but public security as well.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the security baked into our applications throughout the software development lifecycle
• Evangelize software security best practices through training and information sharing
• Partner closely with engineering and product teams to improve the security of Verkada's products and exceed customers' expectations
• Explore innovative solutions to enable Verkada business instead of "Security says No"
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute on goals, priorities and process
• Set up security tooling and secure defaults to ensure software security best practices
• Perform architecture analysis, threat modeling and technical design reviews of sensitive features and infrastructure
• Create and operate a bug bounty program
• Triage and recommend solutions for security bugs from tools, third party assessments and bug bounties
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader Verkada security program
• Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally via security conferences and blogs
• Help your peer engineers grow their own security reasoning and knowledge

Qualifications:

• Ability to successfully pass a background screening in accordance with CJIS security standards
• Eligibility to onboard into AWS GovCloud production environments
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Strong experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud service provider
• 7 - 10+ years of experience as a security engineer, software engineer, site reliability engineer, or security consultant
• Understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations
• Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new security products, features, and strategies;
• Coding ability. You will sometimes write production Python/Go code, security peer review code, build proofs of concept or implement automation scripts
• Experience with most of the following: Security Development Lifecycle, Threat Modeling, Architecture Analysis, Technical Design Review, Security Code Review, Open Policy Agent, SIEM
• Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance coverage
• Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays
• Wellness allowance
• Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily
• Generous paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

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).

$130,000 — $280,000 USD

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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