Senior+ IAM Engineer

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Verkada Inc. is seeking a Senior IAM Engineer in the San Mateo area to define and enforce identity and access across our infrastructure.

You will codify identity boundaries in Terraform and Rego, drive least privilege across AWS roles, and implement self-service access guided by agentic workflows. You will own lifecycle management for human and non-human identities, automate reviews, and build tools to detect drift and over-permissioned access, collaborating with security and product teams to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS or related field.
• 3+ years hands-on identity and access management in a cloud-native environment.
• Deep AWS IAM expertise: policy evaluation, permissions, SCPs, Terraform expressions.
• Fluency with SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM; RBAC/ABAC or policy-based access.
• Ability to automate work via scripting or low-code platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication to explain access decisions.

Responsibilities

• Manage IAM infrastructure as code using Terraform with policy-as-code.
• Advance zero trust controls for engineering access: short-lived credentials and just-in-time elevation.
• Own the access lifecycle for human and non-human identities including joiner/mover/leaver flows.
• Operate access review and certification workflows to produce audit evidence.
• Write tools to surface over-permissioned identities, unused credentials, and policy drift; drive remediation.
• Build agentic workflows to automate access requests, approvals, risk scoring, and reviews.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and product teams to embed secure IAM design.

Skills

IAM security

Automation scripting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Okta administration

Job description

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation , more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

As a Senior IAM Engineer on the Security team, you will set the standard for identity and access across Verkada, owning how access is defined, granted, reviewed, and revoked throughout our infrastructure. From codifying identity boundaries in Terraform and Rego to driving least privilege across AWS roles and policies on zero trust principles, your work will turn access management from a manual ticket queue into a self-service system powered by scripts and agentic workflows.

What You'll Do

• Manage identity and access infrastructure as code in Terraform, with peer-reviewed change control, drift detection, and policy-as-code.
• Advance zero trust controls for engineering access: short-lived credentials, just-in-time elevation, and the elimination of standing privilege.
• Own the access lifecycle for both human and non-human identities: joiner/mover/leaver flows, service accounts, and agents.
• Operate access review and certification workflows that produce audit evidence.
• Write tools to surface over-permissioned identities, unused credentials, and policy drift; then drive remediation to completion.
• Build agentic workflows on a low-code orchestration platform to automate access requests, approvals, risk scoring, and access review campaigns.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and product engineering teams so that the secure path is the easy path, and consult on IAM design for new services.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years working hands-on with identity and access management in a cloud-native engineering environment
• Deep AWS IAM expertise: policy evaluation logic, permission boundaries, assume-role patterns, SCPs, and the ways they fail in practice and how to express them in Terraform
• Fluency with identity protocols and access models (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM; RBAC, ABAC, or policy-based access), plus working knowledge of Okta administration and APIs: SSO, provisioning, group rules, and authentication policies
• Ability to build automation for your own work, using either scripting or low-code/no-code orchestration platforms, including LLM or agent-driven steps
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills — you can explain an access decision to an engineer, an auditor, and an executive

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
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily

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.

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

$200,000 - $300,000 USD

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.