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Staff Software Engineer - Security and Privacy

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San Mateo, CA
200K-300K Annually
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San Mateo, CA
200K-300K Annually
Senior level
This role involves developing security infrastructure, architecting systems, mentoring engineers, and enhancing product security, focusing on privacy and customer data protection.
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Who We Are

Verkada is a leader in cloud-based B2B physical security. 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, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices across three continents, 2,100+ full-time employees and 30,000+ 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
  • Excellent collaborative skills
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication

Perks & Benefits:

  • Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance coverage 
  • Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays 
  • Wellness allowance 
  • Commuter benefits 
  • Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily 
  • Generous paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

Culture and Values:

  • Ownership: Smaller teams help encourage autonomy and create a more pronounced sense of ownership. 
  • Persistence and Grit: We learn from our mistakes and triumphs, we iterate and pivot when things aren’t working, and we persist no matter how difficult it might be, with our vision at the forefront of all we do.
  • Teamwork: We are all laser-focused on the priorities in front of us, and collaborating with and relying upon our peers for input, feedback, and even motivation ultimately enables us to more effectively achieve our goals.

Annual Pay Range

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

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$200,000$300,000 USD

Verkada Is An 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.

Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy. 

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406 E. 3rd Ave, San Mateo, CA, United States, 94401

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