Staff+ Security Engineer, IT and Corporate Security

Staff+ Security Engineer, IT and Corporate Security

San Mateo, CA United States

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We've got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform's impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that's alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We're rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

We're looking for an IT Security Leader that will partner with our IT Team and other system owners to set the requirements and priorities for IT infrastructure security. Reporting to the CISO, you will design, implement, and continuously improve the systems that protect our employees, data, and operations. AI and automation will be leveraged where possible. Along the way, you'll support risk management, compliance, and incident response operations.

What You'll Do

• Manage and implement corporate AI security strategy
• Design and implement identity and access management controls (SSO, MFA, RBAC, conditional access policies, Zero Trust Network Access)
• Lead endpoint security strategy (MDM, EDR, DLP, device hardening)
• Define and enforce security best practices across the organization
• Partner with IT, Engineering, and Security teams to secure internal systems, endpoints, SaaS applications, and corporate infrastructure
• Support compliance efforts (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
• Build security automation, tooling and agents through orchestration platform to ensure security best practices and governance
• Respond to internal security events and alerts

What You Bring

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience as a security engineer or IT systems engineer working on security
• Understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations
• Strong understanding of identity management, endpoint security, and cloud-based SaaS environments
• Scripting ability. You will write Python scripts for security and compliance automation
• Experience aligning on security risks and plans with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Outstanding written and verbal communication
• Experience in a high-growth startup environment

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs) Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$200,000 - $300,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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