Staff+ Security Engineer, Developer Tools

Verkada•San Mateo, CA

8h•$200,000 - $300,000

About The Position

We are looking for a security engineering leader to collaborate with the Developer Experience engineering team. As an embedded partner for the team, you will perform threat models, security design reviews and refine security tools that facilitate security throughout the SDLC. You will define the security roadmap, requirements and priorities to expand and enhance the tools, AI agents, and systems that empower our software engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
Strong experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud service provider
7+ years of experience as a security engineer, software engineer, site reliability engineer, or security consultant
Understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations
Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new security products, features, and strategies
Coding ability. You will sometimes write production Python/Go code, security peer review code, build proofs of concept or implement automation scripts
Excellent collaborative skills
Outstanding written and verbal communication
Experience with most of the following: Security Development Lifecycle, Threat Modeling, Architecture Analysis, Technical Design Review, Security Code Review, Open Policy Agent, SIEM

Responsibilities

Facilitate the security baked into our applications throughout the software development lifecycle
Evangelize software security best practices through training and information sharing
Partner closely with engineering and product teams to improve the security of Verkada’s products and exceed customers’ expectations
Explore innovative solutions to enable Verkada business instead of “Security says No”
Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute on goals, priorities and process
Set up security tooling and secure defaults to ensure software security best practices
Perform architecture analysis, threat modeling and technical design reviews of sensitive features and infrastructure
Create and operate a bug bounty program
Triage and recommend solutions for security bugs from tools, third party assessments and bug bounties
Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader Verkada security program
Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally via security conferences and blogs
Help your peer engineers grow their own security reasoning and knowledge