Staff Embedded Linux Security Engineer @ 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 15 offices across three continents, 1,600+ full-time employees and 20,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

About our team

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).

You will:

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

Perks & Benefits

Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance coverage
Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays
Wellness allowance
Commuter benefits
Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily
Generous paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

Staff Embedded Linux Security Engineer

Verkada

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