GRC Engineer

About the Role

Build and lead the GRCA function within Verkada’s Security Team. Manage risks, scale and meet Verkada’s growing compliance needs. Curate information provided to customers about Verkada’s security practices.

You'll build scalable, automated programs that enable rapid business growth while maintaining customer trust. As Verkada expands globally with increasing enterprise customers, this role is critical to meeting sophisticated security and compliance expectations that directly impact revenue and risk management.

What You'll Do

• Work cross functionally with Security, IT, Engineering, Product and Legal to provide guidance on security controls implementation including: effectiveness, implementation and automation
  • Research, build and maintain tooling for testing and continuous monitoring of security controls across multiple platforms including: AWS, Github, etc.
• Maintain the roadmap for continuous security compliance across Verkada’s Corporate, IT and Product environments with a goal of increasing automation coverage
• Assist in the development and maintenance of company-wide security policies, procedures, and plans, and support communication to internal stakeholders regarding security and compliance best practices around applicable laws, regulations, and controls
• Communicate progress, escalations, and issue resolution to management and team stakeholders
• Create procedural documentation, including training materials or process documentation
• Build relationships with a broad range of Verkada employees at all levels to accomplish program objectives and further Verkada GRC goals.
• Implement the development and oversight of required corrective action plans relating to security compliance issues
• Perform annual security risk assessments and prepare risk treatment plans
• Conduct vendor security assessments to assess risks and evaluate security postures of new and existing third-party vendors/suppliers
• Manage the Security Exception Process to enable Security teams to track exceptions, manage approvals, and improve automation
• Assurance program (the A in GRCA) - Maintain the FAQ for customer questionnaires
• Collaborate on Business Impact Assessments (BIA) and annual BCP/DR activities
• Leverage AI and automation to scale the GRCA functions
• Work closely with internal and external auditors to educate them and achieve continuous compliance over technology control environment 
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

What You Bring

• Outstanding written and spoken communication skills
• Ability to effectively and autonomously accomplish outcomes across cross-functional teams in ambiguous situations
• Ability to multitask, prioritize work and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Experience with AWS or another cloud service provider
• Prior experience with software companies’ compliance
• Experience with audits, risk and compliance (SOC 2, ISO27001, etc.) for cloud software products.
• 7+ years of security/IT compliance or equivalent experience
• Bonus: Experience with scripting languages such as: Python, JSON etc
• Bonus: Prior experience automating audit evidence collection

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
• 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.

Estimated Annual Pay Range 200000 - 250000 USD