Staff+ Security Engineer, Developer Tools

verkada

San Mateo, CA United States · San Mateo · United States

Posted Jun 18, 2026

Full-time
Security

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Job description

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, Next47 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 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.

What You'll Do

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

What You Bring

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

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
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.

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