Staff+ Software Engineer, Agentic Software Security

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs with 100% employee

Family medical vision dental coverage

HSA/FSA with employer contributions

Job summary

Verkada Inc. in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for Agentic Software Security to scale security across the SDLC. You will author code daily, build security tools, and apply AI to automate security practices within Verkada’s product and infrastructure.

The role requires 7+ years in security-focused software engineering, a CS degree, and onsite work five days/week. This position offers competitive compensation and robust employee benefits.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Interest in security weaknesses, attacks, and mitigations.
• Experience leveraging AI as you build.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities; may assume PM responsibilities.
• Build tools to help engineers implement secure practices in product and infrastructure.
• Leverage AI to automate Verkada’s security engineering practices.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to set security goals and processes.
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow Verkada's security programs.
• Share security knowledge via talks, blogs, and open source.

Skills

Write code daily

AI in security

Security-focused software engineering

Onsite work

Interest in security weaknesses

Security automation

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

M.S./PhD in Security (bonus)

Job description

Staff+ Software Engineer, Agentic Software Security

San Mateo, CA United States

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

The Verkada Security Team is a software engineering team at its core- we build the right way to do software security. In this role, you will scale Verkada’s security in the SDLC through automation, libraries, tools and frameworks. The role’s broad scope means you will be writing code in a variety of technology stacks and collaborating with engineering teams across Verkada’s Command platform.

What You'll Do

• As a Verkada Builder, you will have a broad scope of ownership and will lead initiatives to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities from Verkada. This includes wearing a PM hat when needed, building experiments and prototypes, driving adoption of your tools, and demonstrating your impact on the organization
• 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

What You Bring

• 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
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

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
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily

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

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

$200,000 - $300,000 USD

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