Verkada
Staff+ Security Engineer, Core Command
$200K–$300K
San Mateo, CA United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
San Mateo, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of experience as a security engineer in an advisory role.
- Education
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- The company sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role.
About the job
Lead security engineering for the Core Command platform by embedding with engineering teams to strengthen application and infrastructure security throughout the software development lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Define security roadmaps, requirements, and priorities for core platform security services, web frontend, and mobile applications.
- Conduct threat modeling, architecture analysis, design and code reviews; improve security tooling and triage security bugs.
- Partner with engineering, product, and security leaders; support security training and operate a bug bounty program.
What they ask for
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent.
- Strong experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud service provider.
- Understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations.
- Coding ability, including production Python/Go code, code reviews, proofs of concept, or automation scripts.
Nice to have
- Experience with most of the following: Security Development Lifecycle, Threat Modeling, Architecture Analysis, Technical Design Review, Security Code Review.
Pay
$200,000 — $300,000 USD (annual on-target earnings, comprised of base compensation and commissions if applicable; not specified as base salary or total pay)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Python, Go
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