Staff+ Security Engineer, Developer Tools

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.