Director, Identity, Entitlements & Activity

Veeam Software; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 383,000 - 710,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Paid holidays

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Mental health support

401(k) matching

Volunteer time

Job summary

Veeam Software in San Jose is seeking a Director to lead Identity, Entitlements & Activity. You will own the strategy, architecture, and delivery for collecting entitlements and activity from connected systems, modelling ownership, and correlating with data sensitivity to expose risk and drive policies.

This role requires 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading teams, plus hands-on experience with IAM, data security, and graph-based data models.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading teams.
• Experience owning large-scale distributed data systems in production.
• Background in identity and access management, data security, or data governance.
• Strong technical credibility in Go, Java, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy and roadmap for entitlement collection, activity analysis, and access-risk insights.
• Lead a distributed engineering team across geographies and mentor engineers.
• Take over and stabilize an existing data pipeline and ensure self-sufficiency.
• Own the architecture for resumable entitlement scans and graph-based models.
• Scale for billions of files and high event volume across on‑prem and cloud deployments.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver coherent access governance.
• Raise the engineering bar by reviewing designs and failure modes.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Distributed data systems

Identity and access management

Leadership

Tools

Graph databases

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Job description

Director, Identity, Entitlements & Activity

San Jose, CA, USA

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.

About the Role

Organizations hold sensitive data across file systems, cloud storage, and SaaS applications, and they need to know who can access it, who actually does , and whether that access is appropriate . As Director, you will lead the team that builds this capability: collecting entitlements and activity from connected systems, modelling ownership through groups and nested groups, and correlating that with data sensitivity to show exposure and drive policy. The platform deploys both in the cloud and on-premises . You will own the technical direction, the delivery, and the team.

What You’ll Do

• Set the strategy and roadmap: Own the roadmap for entitlement collection, activity analysis, and access-risk insights. Balance new application coverage against reliability, scale, and customer escalations.
• Lead, hire, and grow the team: Lead a distributed team across multiple geographies, and hire and mentor engineers at every level.
• Take over and stabilize: Take ownership of an existing pipeline from the current group, run the knowledge transfer, and make the team self‑sufficient.
• Own the architecture: Be accountable for resumable, idempotent entitlement scans, incremental collection, a normalized entitlement model, and a graph-based model of principals, resources, and access. Make deliberate trade‑offs across the search, analytical, and graph stores, and keep them consistent as volume grows.
• Scale for large customers: Plan for billions of files and very high event volume. That includes collecting activity from each new application despite its own throttling and APIs and reliably moving data from on‑premises deployments to the cloud without inappropriate throttling.
• Partner across the organization: Work with the connector, content classification, and data engineering teams, plus product and support, to deliver a coherent access‑governance capability.
• Raise the engineering bar: Review designs and failure modes with real technical depth.

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• A track record of owning large-scale distributed data systems in production: pipelines that scan, ingest, and reconcile large volumes of data, with correctness, resumability, and failure handling.
• Experience in identity and access management, data security, DSPM, CIEM, or data access governance.
• Strong technical credibility in Go, Java, or Python. You can review a design, spot race conditions and duplicate‑processing risks, and ask hard questions.
• Working knowledge of graph databases or graph query languages, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, and at least one large analytical store such as Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery.
• Experience building and managing teams across time zones, including hiring, performance management, and mentoring.
• Clear communication with engineers, product, and executives, and sound judgment about when to ship.

What you’ll get

• Unlimited paid time off, 12 paid holidays including 4 global VeeaMe Days for self‑care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
• Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on your first day
• Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via our Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
• Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support through Maven, plus paid volunteer time
• AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost
• Legal services, identity protection, and supplemental health insurance options
• Tax‑advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting
• Opportunities to learn and grow through on‑demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O'Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning

Pay Transparency

Veeam is committed to pay transparency and equitable compensation. For this role, the compensation range below reflects the expected total target compensation (TTC), inclusive of base pay and a competitive performance‑based bonus. For roles with a commission plan, the compensation range represents On Target Earnings (OTE), which includes base salary plus variable commission. When determining compensation, Veeam takes into consideration factors such as experience, education, skills, and geographic zone. Offers are typically made below the midpoint of the range.

In addition to compensation, Veeam provides a comprehensive benefits package, including health coverage, retirement plans, and unlimited time off.

Compensation Range (TTC / OTE)

$382,560 - $710,400 USD

Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination in any form on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law. All your information will be kept confidential.

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