Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Security & AI Automation

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

Professional development stipend

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a security-focused software engineer to join the Security Team. You will scale security across the SDLC, writing code across stacks, and building tools for engineers to embed secure practices.

You will apply AI to security workflows, collaborate with engineering leaders and the CISO, and help grow Verkada's security program while sharing insights via conferences and blogs. This role is onsite in California.

Qualifications

• You will write code every day.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent.
• Masters or PhD in security is a bonus.
• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer that has worked on security problems.
• You can just break things - interest in security weaknesses, attacks, and mitigations.
• Experience leveraging AI as you build.
• Excellent collaborative skills.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

Responsibilities

• As a Verkada Builder, you will have a broad scope of ownership and will lead initiatives to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities from Verkada.
• Build tools to make it easy for Verkada's software engineers to do the right thing for security as they build products and infrastructure.
• Leverage AI to automate Verkada's security engineering practices.
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute on security goals, priorities and process.
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader Verkada security and privacy programs.
• Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally via security conferences, presentations, blogs and open source.

Skills

Security software engineering

AI in security

Collaboration

Communication skills

Code daily

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Masters or PhD in security (bonus)

Job description

Verkada is seeking a security-focused software engineer to join the Security Team. You will scale security across the SDLC, writing code across stacks, and building tools for engineers to embed secure practices.

You will apply AI to security workflows, collaborate with engineering leaders and the CISO, and help grow Verkada's security program while sharing insights via conferences and blogs. This role is onsite in California.