Staff+ Application Security Engineer

Verkada; San Mateo, California, City of Rochester (CA, MO, NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company redefining physical security through innovative cloud-based solutions. As a security engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing product security, collaborating closely with engineering teams, and sharing your expertise across the organization. Your contributions will help shape a safer environment for thousands of customers globally. With a commitment to employee well-being, this role offers generous benefits, including unlimited paid time off and comprehensive health insurance. This is an exceptional opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing industry.

Benefits

Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance

Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays

Wellness allowance

Commuter benefits

Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily

Generous paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years experience as a security engineer or consultant.
• Strong understanding of security weaknesses and mitigations.
• Experience with security tools and coding in Python/Go.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate security in applications throughout the development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve product security.
• Create and operate a bug bounty program.

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

Who We Are

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.

About Verkada

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:

• 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


• Excellent collaborative skills


• Outstanding written and verbal communication


• Experience with most of the following: Security Development Lifecycle, Threat Modeling, Architecture Analysis, Technical Design Review, Security Code Review, Open Policy Agent, SIEM

Perks & Benefits:

• Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance coverage


• Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays


• Wellness allowance


• Commuter benefits


• 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).

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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