Sr. Staff Cloud Security Engineer

San Mateo, California

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Verkada

Imagine all your building and security products on a single cloud-managed platform, accessible from anywhere in the world. Free 30-day trial. Simple, secure and scalable.

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Who We AreVerkada is the leading physical security platform to protect people, assets and privacy. Designed with simplicity in mind, Verkada’s five product lines - video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms and visitor management - provide seamless visibility through an integrated secure cloud-based software platform. Over 9,700+ organizations worldwide trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, frictionless scalability and cutting-edge innovation.

About our teamBehind the scenes, we’re a team of computer scientists, hardware engineers and experienced founders who saw a chance to make a real impact. We’re united by the challenge of building beautiful products, designed for real people—and by our commitment to using technology responsibly. We believe keeping data private and secure is core to our safety as individuals, businesses and communities and we put great care into building systems that embody our values as people. Likewise, many of Silicon Valley’s top investors believe in us: we’re backed by Sequoia Capital, FirstRound, Meritech and Siemens (Next47).

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate the security baked into our cloud infrastructure for our applications and customer data
  • Partner closely with Infrastructure engineering to test and 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 to ensure cloud secure best practices
  • Contribute changes to production security infrastructure (e.g., configure GuardDuty or AWS Config)
  • Improve the security of our Kubernetes cluster and containers
  • Build a cloud security detection and response program leveraging automation, secure defaults to enforce security policy and detect threats
  • 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

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
  • Strong experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud service provider
  • 7 - 10+ 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: AWS security tools (GuardDuty, AWS Config, CloudTrail), Terraform, Kubernetes, Containers, Open Policy Agent, Secrets Management, SIEM

Perks & Benefits

  • Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance coverage 
  • Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays 
  • Wellness allowance 
  • Commuter benefits 
  • Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily 
  • Generous paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits


US Perks & Benefits- Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance coverage - Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays - Wellness allowance - Commuter benefits - Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily - Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits  
Verkada is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to be a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is support for members and allies of our internal communities like Women at Verkada, Pride at Verkada, Multicultural at Verkada and Parents at Verkada.

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Tags: Automation AWS Cloud Computer Science Exploits GCP Kubernetes Privacy Python SIEM Terraform

Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences Fertility benefits Flex vacation Health care Lunch / meals Medical leave Parental leave Unlimited paid time off Wellness

Region: North America
Country: United States
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