Staff+ Security Engineer, Core Command

Verkada; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs

Vision/Dental coverage

HSA program

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a security engineering leader to partner with the Core Command team. You will drive threat modeling, security design reviews, and tooling to strengthen authentication, authorization, and audit services across Verkada’s platform.

Role requires 7+ years as a security engineer in advisory capacity, strong cloud experience (AWS/GCP), and proficiency in Python/Go. Excellent collaboration and communication skills are essential for cross‑functional impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 7+ years of experience as a security engineer in an advisory role.
• Strong understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations.
• Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new security products, features, and strategies.
• You will sometimes write production Python/Go code, security peer review code, build proofs of concept or implement automation scripts.
• Excellent collaborative and communication skills.
• Experience with Security Development Lifecycle, Threat Modeling, Architecture Analysis, Technical Design Review, Security Code Review.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the security baked into applications across the SDLC.
• Lead threat modeling and security design reviews.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to improve product security.
• Define security roadmap, requirements and priorities for core security services.
• Create and operate a bug bounty program and triage security bugs.

Skills

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Architecture analysis

Security code review

Collaboration

Communication

Python/Go coding

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

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

We are looking for a security engineering leader to collaborate with the Core Command engineering team. As an embedded partner for the team, you will perform threat models, security design reviews and refine security tools that facilitate security throughout the SDLC. You will define the security roadmap, requirements and priorities to expand and enhance the Verkada Command platform core security services (Authentication, Authorization, Users, Roles, Audit), web frontend, and mobile applications.

What You’ll Do

• 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

What You Bring

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Strong experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud service provider
• 7+ years of experience as a security engineer in an advisory role
• 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

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
• 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

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$200,000 — $300,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

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