Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Professional development stipend

Commuter benefits

Fertility benefits

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape our internal access management architecture and define technical strategy across the company. You will own the architecture, build backend infrastructure, integrate identity providers, automate access workflows with AI, and ensure compliance.

Join a fast-growing startup culture focused on secure, scalable access across Verkada's platform and products. This role is based in San Mateo, CA, and requires strong leadership and collaboration with

Qualifications

• BS in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years backend or security platform experience.
• Experience building access management platforms from ground up.
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM.
• Experience with cloud-native infra (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of Verkada's internal access management platform.
• Design, build, and operate highly available backend infrastructure.
• Extend integrations with identity providers, role mapping, and IaC.
• Build automation for access reviews and AI-assisted risk scoring.
• Create developer tools to request, approve, and audit access.

Skills

Backend engineering

Security platform engineering

Identity primitives

Least-privilege access

Automation with AI/LLM tooling

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Tools

Okta administration

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Slack-based chat-ops tooling

Job description

Who We Are

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 Staff Software Engineer on the team, you will shape Verkada's internal access management architecture, define technical strategy, and build the infrastructure used to provision, review, and audit access across the company. From evolving our in-house access platform to setting guardrails for AI-driven and agentic workflows, your technical leadership will directly impact every team at Verkada.

What You'll Do

• Own the technical architecture of Verkada's internal access management platform, the system of record for employee, service, and non-human access across company resources.
• Design, build, and operate highly available, observable backend infrastructure for access provisioning and review, using modern backend languages and cloud-native tooling.
• Extend and harden integrations with identity providers (e.g. Okta) — custom roles, entitlement mapping, and infrastructure-as-code management of identity resources.
• Build automation that replaces manual access review and approval workflows, including AI-assisted risk scoring, anomaly detection, and self-service provisioning.
• Create automated, developer-friendly tools (including chat-based interfaces) that let teams request, approve, and audit access without manual security operations overhead.
• Ensure access controls meet compliance requirements.
• Experience in a high-growth startup environment

What You'll Need

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of backend engineering or security platform engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience designing and building access management platforms or identity infrastructure from the ground up, rather than administering third-party tools.
• Strong understanding of identity primitives, least-privilege access, and protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, or SCIM.
• Experience implementing role-based, policy-based, or attribute-based access control models.
• Experience replacing manual operational workflows with automation, ideally including AI or LLM-driven tooling.
• Experience operating high-availability infrastructure in cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Points

• Experience with Okta administration and Okta APIs at scale.
• Experience building Slack-based or chat-ops tooling for internal workflows.
• Prior experience in a regulated or compliance-heavy environment (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001).

US Employee Benefits

• 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.

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).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$200,000—$300,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

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