Staff Software Engineer - Security and Privacy San Mateo, CA United States Software Engineering

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

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Staff Software Engineer focused on Security and Privacy. In this dynamic role, you'll develop innovative security frameworks and tools, ensuring the safety of customer data while working with cutting-edge technology stacks. You'll collaborate with talented engineers and lead projects that enhance security measures, such as end-to-end encryption. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing organization dedicated to providing top-notch security solutions. If you are passionate about coding and security, this role is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a software or security engineer with coding skills.
• Strong experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud service providers.

Responsibilities

• Develop security infrastructure and mentor junior engineers.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance product security and manage data volumes.

Skills

Coding Skills

Cryptography

AWS

GCP

Security & Privacy Knowledge

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Tools

Cloud Services

Security Tools

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - Security and Privacy

San Mateo, CA United States

Who We Are

Verkada is the largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform company in the world. Only Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.

Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.

Founded in 2016 with more than $460M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 16 offices across three continents, 1,900+ full-time employees and 25,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

Overview

The Verkada Security Team is an engineering team at its core. Part of its charter is to build frameworks, tools, and platform services for security and privacy controls. In this role, you'll build distributed systems capable of handling high traffic, apply your cryptography skills, and launch new services that protect customers and personal data. The broad scope of the role will have you coding in various technology stacks, and collaborating with Verkada's engineering teams, always with a focus on security and privacy.

Responsibilities:

• Develop security and privacy infrastructure, including services that seamlessly incorporate security into our infrastructure, applications, and devices.
• Architect systems designed to effectively manage escalating data volumes as Verkada expands, all without compromising performance or security.
• Mentor and foster the development of junior engineers.
• Work closely with engineering and product teams to enhance Verkada’s product security, thereby exceeding customer expectations.
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and implement goals, priorities, and processes.
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to expand Verkada's wider security and privacy programs.
• Share your security expertise internally and externally via security conferences, presentations, blogs, and open-source contributions.
• You'll work on projects such as end-to-end encryption and data encryption (both at rest and in use), all aimed at safeguarding customer data.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer or security engineer that writes code
• Demonstrable coding skills and desire to write code every day
• Strong experience with AWS, GCP, or other cloud service provider
• Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new security & privacy products, features, and strategies

Pay Disclosure

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. This estimate can vary based on factors such as 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).

$200,000 - $300,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.