Staff+ Software Engineer, Security Infrastructure

Verkada
San Mateo; CA United States, US
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-level software engineers with security expertise who thrive in onsite collaboration and AI-driven automation.

Best fit for

  • Security-focused software engineers comfortable with broad technical ownership.
    — “you will have a broad scope of ownership and will lead initiatives
  • Candidates who enjoy both coding and security evangelism.
    — “Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally
  • Developers with AI integration experience in security contexts.
    — “Leverage AI to automate Verkada’s security engineering practices

Things to consider

  • Mandatory full-time onsite work in San Mateo.
    — “Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week
  • Requires balancing coding with cross-team security advocacy.
    — “Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute on security goals

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate concrete examples of security tool adoption you've driven.
    — “driving adoption of your tools, and demonstrating your impact on the organization
  • Showcase AI implementations in past security projects.
    — “Experience leveraging AI as you build
  • Highlight public security communications like conference talks.
    — “via security conferences, presentations, blogs and open source
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid Level

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • elimination of security vulnerabilities
  • automation of security practices
Typical background
software engineeringsecurity

Skills & requirements

Required

Software EngineeringSecurity InfrastructureAI IntegrationCollaboration

Preferred

AI For SecurityPresentation Skills

Stack & domain

AISecurity InfrastructureLinuxCollaborationCommunicationSecuritySoftware Engineering

About the role

Original posting from Verkada via Greenhouse

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 31,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, 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

Excellent collaborative skills

Outstanding written and verbal communication

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

Professional development stipend

Fertility Stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy lunches provided daily

Commuter benefits

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).

Estimated Annual Pay Range$200,000—$300,000 USDVerkada 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.

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Source: Verkada careers (Greenhouse)

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