Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security
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
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!
What You'll Do
- Build out and maintain security infrastructure, such as internal tooling to automate device security testing.
- Design, build, maintain, and scale device security backend systems & tools, such as those that help us secure the firmware supply chain.
- Develop, improve, and build automation to administer the device security program.
- Help mentor other engineers, and learn everything you can about security.
What You Bring
- BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- 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.
- Strong understanding and exp
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