Backend Engineer - Device Security

 

Verkada’s device security team has an important mission–to 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!

 

• Build out and maintain security testing infrastructure, such as Supertest, our device security testing automation system.
• Write security tooling and infrastructure 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. 

Qualifications:

• 3+ 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
• Prior experience
• 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

Culture and Values:

• Ownership: Smaller teams help encourage autonomy and create a more pronounced sense of ownership. 
• Persistence and Grit: We learn from our mistakes and triumphs, we iterate and pivot when things aren’t working, and we persist no matter how difficult it might be, with our vision at the forefront of all we do.
• Teamwork: We are all laser-focused on the priorities in front of us, and collaborating with and relying upon our peers for input, feedback, and even motivation ultimately enables us to more effectively achieve our goals.