Security Engineer, Core Command

Position: Staff+ Security Engineer, Core Command
Who We Are Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next
47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes.

We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries. About the Role We are looking for a security engineering leader to collaborate with the Core Command 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 Verkada Command platform core security services (Authentication, Authorization, Users, Roles, Audit), web frontend, and mobile applications.

What You'll DoFacilitate 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

What You Bring Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent

Strong experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud service provider7+ years of experience as a security engineer in an advisory role 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 ReviewUS 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.…