Staff Software Engineer - Detection and Response Platform

at  Verkada

WHO WE ARE

Verkada is the largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform company in the world. Only Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.
Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.
Founded in 2016 with more than $460M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 16 offices across three continents, 1,900+ full-time employees and 25,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
• 7-10+ years of experience as a software engineer, security engineer, site reliability engineer, or security consultant.
• Experience building robust and scalable products in public clouds (we use AWS)
• Proficiency in programming in Golang or Python
• Familiarity in continuous integration and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience designing, and optimizing high throughput ETL pipelines
• Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new security products, features, and strategies
• Excellent collaborative skills
• Outstanding written and verbal communication

• Build, operate and improve Verkada’s Security Monitoring, Detection and Response infrastructure
• Onboard new systems and services to our SIEM
• Tune alerts to maintain high signal
• Automate data enrichment and incident response workflows
• Facilitate incident response processes and tabletop exercises
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader Verkada security program
• Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally via security conferences and blogs
• Help your peer engineers grow their own security reasoning and knowledg