Staff Security Engineer: Secure SDLC & Threat Modeling

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Mental health support

Parental leave

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a security engineering leader to collaborate with the Developer Experience team. You will perform threat models, security design reviews, and refine security tools that secure SDLC across Verkada’s software.

You will define the security roadmap, set requirements and priorities, and partner with engineering and product to improve Verkada’s products while enabling the business. You will also lead architecture analysis, review sensitive features, and support a broad security

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent is required.
• 7+ years in security engineering, software engineering, SRE, or related.
• Experience with security across SDLC, threat modeling and design reviews.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate security baked into applications across the software development lifecycle.
• Evangelize software security best practices through training and information sharing.
• Partner with engineering and product to improve Verkada’s product security and exceed customer expectations.
• Define, communicate, and execute security goals and priorities with engineering leadership.
• Set up security tooling and secure defaults to promote best practices across teams.
• Perform architecture analysis, threat modeling and technical design reviews of sensitive features and infrastructure.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud platforms

Threat modeling

Python/Go coding

Security design reviews

Collaboration

Security tooling

Open Policy Agent

SIEM

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Tools

Open Policy Agent

SIEM

Job description

Verkada is seeking a security engineering leader to collaborate with the Developer Experience team. You will perform threat models, security design reviews, and refine security tools that secure SDLC across Verkada’s software.

You will define the security roadmap, set requirements and priorities, and partner with engineering and product to improve Verkada’s products while enabling the business. You will also lead architecture analysis, review sensitive features, and support a broad security