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Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security

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San Mateo, CA
200K-300K Annually
Senior level
San Mateo, CA
200K-300K Annually
Senior level
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will design and maintain backend systems for device security, automate security testing, and mentor engineers. Collaborate within agile teams to improve overall security measures.
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Who We Are

Verkada is a leader in cloud-based B2B physical security. Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.

 

Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.

 

Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices across three continents, 2,100+ full-time employees and 30,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

About the Device Security Team

Verkada’s device security team has an important mission–empower the company to build the safest physical security products in the world.  We are directly responsible for the development of important defensive security measures that run on all Verkada devices.  We help maintain and expand security testing infrastructure that constantly evaluates devices for security vulnerabilities.  And we help the company build stronger and more resilient products through our offensive security evaluation efforts.  If you love building scalable systems that have a huge impact, we want to hear from you!

Backend Engineer Day-to-Day:

  • Design, build, maintain, and scale device security backend systems, such as those relating to authorization and logging.
  • Build out and maintain security infrastructure, such as internal tooling to automate device security testing.
  • Research & develop tooling that helps us secure the firmware supply chain.
  • Help mentor other engineers, and learn everything you can about security.

Qualifications:

  • 8+ years developing go/Python microservices with AWS and participating in on-call.
  • Strong knowledge of scalable fault-tolerant backend systems design, including databases, queues, blob storage.
  • Working knowledge of at least some of these: temporal, k8s, docker, redis, dynamoDB, postgres, IAM, S3, kafka.
  • Strong understanding and experience in systems architecture.

Nice to Have:

  • BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering.
  • Firmware or OS-level software development experience.
  • Security experience, hacker mindset, or interest in learning more.

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

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.

Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy. 

Top Skills

AWS
Docker
DynamoDB
Go
Iam
Kafka
Postgres
Python
Redis
S3

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