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Verkada Inc

Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security

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In-Office
San Mateo, CA
200K-300K Annually
Senior level
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San Mateo, CA
200K-300K Annually
Senior level
Design, build and maintain backend systems for device security, develop internal tooling for security testing, mentor engineers, and enhance security awareness.
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Who We Are
Designed with simplicity in mind, Verkada's six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace, and intercoms — provide unparalleled building security through an integrated, cloud-based software platform. Over 33,500 organizations, including 96 companies in the Fortune 500, across 93 countries worldwide trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016 with more than $700M in funding raised to-date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.

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

  • Design, build, maintain, and scale device security backend systems, such as those relating to authorization and logging.
  • Build out and maintain security infrastructure, such as internal tooling to automate device security testing.
  • Research & develop tooling that helps us secure the firmware supply chain.
  • Help mentor other engineers, and learn everything you can about security.

What You Bring

  • 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, kafka
  • Strong understanding and experience in systems architecture
  • BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering (preferred)
  • Firmware or OS-level software development experience (preferred)
  • Security experience, hacker mindset, or interest in learning more (preferred)

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 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. 

Top Skills

AWS
Docker
DynamoDB
Go
Iam
K8S
Kafka
Postgres
Python
Redis
S3
Temporal

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