Staff+ Software Engineer, Agentic Software Security

About the Role

The Verkada Security Team is a software engineering team at its core—we build the right way to do software security. In this role, you will scale Verkada’s security in the SDLC through automation, libraries, tools and frameworks. The role’s broad scope means you will be writing code in a variety of technology stacks and collaborating with engineering teams across Verkada’s Command platform.

What You'll Do

• Lead initiatives to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities from Verkada with broad scope of ownership, including product ownership, building experiments/prototypes, driving adoption, and demonstrating organizational impact
• Build tools to make it easy for Verkada’s software engineers to build secure products and infrastructure
• Leverage AI to automate Verkada’s security engineering practices
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute on security goals, priorities, and processes
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow broader Verkada security and privacy programs
• Share security experience internally and externally via conferences, presentations, blogs, and open source

What You Bring

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent; Master's or PhD in security is a bonus
• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer working on security problems
• Strong interest in security weaknesses, attacks, and mitigations
• Hands-on coding experience daily
• Experience leveraging AI in software development
• Excellent collaborative skills and outstanding written and verbal communication
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week