Verkada
Staff+ Software Engineer, Agentic Software Security
San Mateo, CA United States · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- Experience leveraging AI as you build
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
- 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
Compensation
- Estimated Annual Pay Range
Benefits
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs
- 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
- Fertility Stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Masters or PhD in security is a bonus
Company info
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We're rapidly scaling this impact:
- today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.
Equal opportunity
- Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
- As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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.
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