Staff Embedded Linux Security Engineer

Who We Are

 

 

Behind the scenes, we’re a team of computer scientists, hardware engineers and experienced founders who saw a chance to make a real impact. We’re united by the challenge of building beautiful products, designed for real people—and by our commitment to using technology responsibly. We believe keeping data private and secure is core to our safety as individuals, businesses and communities and we put great care into building systems that embody our values as people. Likewise, many of Silicon Valley’s top investors believe in us: we’re backed by Sequoia Capital, FirstRound, Meritech and Siemens (Next47).

 

• Facilitate the security of the hardware and firmware that goes onto the devices we ship to our customers: Verkada cameras, Access Control units, Card/BLE readers, sensors, and future devices we will soon be launching
• Assist engineering with architecture and design of critical features having major security implications
• Explore innovative solutions to enable Verkada business instead of “Security says No”
• Partner closely with Product, Hardware, and Backend engineering to test and improve the security of Verkada’s products and exceed customers’ expectations
• Set up security tooling to ensure secure coding best practices
• Triage and recommend solutions for security bugs from tools, third party assessments and bug bounties
• Participate in code reviews and pull requests
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute on goals, priorities and process.
• 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 knowledge

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Experience in embedded linux environments
• 7+ years of experience as a security engineer, software engineer, or security consultant
• Familiarity with security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations
• Coding ability - you will be writing production code
• Excellent collaborative skills
• Outstanding written and verbal communication
• Experience with most of the following: Linux System Security, Device Drivers, Kernel, Fuzzing, Network protocols, Static Analysis

Nice to have:

• Achieved FIPS 140 certification
• Knowledge of Yocto-based embedded Linux systems
• Knowledge of hardware security features such as secure boot, TrustZone, memory protections, and roots-of-trustZone, or secure boot
• Cryptography primitives, protocols and applications

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.

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

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