Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security

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:

• Build out and maintain security infrastructure, such as Supertest, our device security testing automation system.
• Write security tooling that helps us secure the firmware software supply chain.
• Design, build, and maintain device security backend systems, such as those relating to authorization and logging.
• Help mentor other engineers, and learn everything you can about security.
• Contribute to other parts of the team (cloud, firmware, offensive testing), should that interest you.

Experience:

• 8+ years developing backend microservices, preferably in Python or Go.
• Strong knowledge of scalable fault-tolerant backend systems design, including databases, queues, blob storage
• Working knowledge of at least some of these: temporal, AWS, docker, redis, dynamoDB, postgres, IAM, S3, kafka
• Strong understanding and experience in systems architecture.
• Have worked in an agile team environment.

Nice to Have:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, but non-traditional backgrounds are OK to apply as well!
• Advanced software architecture or API design experience
• Interest or working knowledge of cryptography
• Hacker mindset, or interest in knowing 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

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