Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security

About the Role

Verkada’s device security team has an important mission–empower the company to build the safest physical security products in the world.  We are directly responsible for the development of important defensive security measures that run on all Verkada devices.  We help maintain and expand security testing infrastructure that constantly evaluates devices for security vulnerabilities.  And we help the company build stronger and more resilient products through our offensive security evaluation efforts.  If you love building scalable systems that have a huge impact, we want to hear from you!

What You'll Do

• Build out and maintain security infrastructure, such as internal tooling to automate device security testing.
• Design, build, maintain, and scale device security backend systems & tools, such as those that help us secure the firmware supply chain.
• Develop, improve, and build automation to administer the device security program.
• Help mentor other engineers, and learn everything you can about security.

What You Bring

• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• 8+ years developing go/Python microservices with AWS and participating in on-call.
• Strong knowledge of scalable fault-tolerant backend systems design, including databases, queues, blob storage.
• Working knowledge of at least some of these: temporal, k8s, docker, redis, dynamoDB, postgres, IAM, S3.
• Strong understanding and experience in systems architecture.
• Experience with managing IoT device fleets. (preferred)
• Security experience, hacker mindset, or interest in learning more (preferred)

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.