Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security
VerkadaPhysical Security company
San Mateo, United States$200,000 - $300,000 USDLead
Software Engineering
About the role
Build and scale backend systems for device security, including automation and firmware supply chain security.
- •Verkada's device security team is responsible for developing defensive security measures that run on all Verkada devices, maintaining security testing infrastructure, and conducting offensive security evaluations to build stronger, more resilient products.
- •This role involves building scalable systems with a huge impact.
- •Key Responsibilities Build out and maintain security infrastructure, such as internal tooling to automate device security testing.
- •Design, build, maintain, and scale device security backend systems & tools, such as those that help secure the firmware supply chain.
- •Develop, improve, and build automation to administer the device security program.
- •Help mentor other engineers, and learn everything you can about security.
- •Requirements BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering.
- •Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 8+ years developing go/Python microservices with AWS and participating in on-call.
- •Strong knowledge of scalable fault-tolerant backend systems design, including databases, queues, blob storage.
- •Working knowledge of at least some of these: temporal, k8s, docker, redis, dynamoDB, postgres, IAM, S3.
Tech stack
GoPythonAWSKubernetesDockerRedisDynamoDBPostgreSQLIAMS3Microservices
Match insights
Tech:Go, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
Level:Lead