Staff Engineer, Detection & Response Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage with 100% premium coverage

Paid parental leave

Professional development stipend

Wellness and fitness benefits

Daily healthy lunches

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Detection and Response Platform in San Mateo, California. The role involves building and operating security monitoring infrastructure, onboarding systems to SIEM, and automating incident response workflows.

The ideal candidate will have 7-10 years of experience in software engineering or security, with skills in Golang or Python, and a passion for security. This position offers a competitive salary between $200,000 and $300,000.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of experience as a software engineer, security engineer, site reliability engineer, or security consultant.
• Experience building robust and scalable products in public clouds (we use AWS).
• Familiarity with continuous integration and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Experience designing and optimizing high-throughput ETL pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and improve Verkada’s Security Monitoring, Detection and Response infrastructure.
• Onboard new systems and services to our SIEM.
• Tune alerts to maintain high signal.
• Automate data enrichment and incident response workflows.
• Facilitate incident response processes and tabletop exercises.
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader Verkada security program.
• Share your security experience with other teams and the external community via conferences and blogs.
• Help your peer engineers develop their security reasoning and knowledge.

Skills

Software engineering

Security engineering

Site reliability engineering

Golang

Python

AWS

Infrastructure-as-Code

ETL pipelines

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Verkada is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Detection and Response Platform in San Mateo, California. The role involves building and operating security monitoring infrastructure, onboarding systems to SIEM, and automating incident response workflows.

The ideal candidate will have 7-10 years of experience in software engineering or security, with skills in Golang or Python, and a passion for security. This position offers a competitive salary between $200,000 and $300,000.