Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security

Verkada • San Mateo, CA

2d • $200,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Verkada's device security team has an important mission: to 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. We also 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!

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with managing IoT device fleets.
• Security experience, hacker mindset, or interest in learning more.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources.
• 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
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy
• Fertility benefits
• Fertility Stipend
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior