Staff Backend Engineer - Security & IoT Platform

Quiet Capital; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy meals provided

Job summary

Verkada is hiring for a senior device security engineer to architect and scale security infrastructure across our devices and backend stack. You will design testing tooling, secure the firmware supply chain, and build automation to manage the device security program.

The role requires 8+ years in Go/Python, AWS on-call experience, strong systems architecture knowledge, and a hacker mindset. On-site use in California is expected with deep collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• 8+ years developing Go/Python microservices with AWS and participating in on-call.
• Strong knowledge of scalable, fault-tolerant backend design including databases, queues and blob storage.
• Knowledge of Temporal, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, IAM and S3.
• Strong understanding and experience in systems architecture.
• Experience with managing IoT device fleets (preferred).
• Security experience or hacker mindset (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Build out security infrastructure and internal tooling for device security testing.
• Design, build and scale device security backend systems and tools (firmware supply chain security).
• Develop, improve and automate the device security program.
• Mentor other engineers and expand security knowledge.

Skills

Go/Python microservices

AWS on-call

Backend scalability

Security mindset

Communication skills

IoT device fleets (preferred)

Systems architecture

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Temporal

Kubernetes

Docker

Redis

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

IAM

S3

Job description

Verkada is hiring for a senior device security engineer to architect and scale security infrastructure across our devices and backend stack. You will design testing tooling, secure the firmware supply chain, and build automation to manage the device security program.

The role requires 8+ years in Go/Python, AWS on-call experience, strong systems architecture knowledge, and a hacker mindset. On-site use in California is expected with deep collaboration across teams.