Verkada
Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management Platform
$200K–$300K
San Mateo, CA United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
San Mateo, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of backend engineering or security platform engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
- Visa sponsorship
- Verkada sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role; if an offer is made, it will make every reasonable effort to get the candidate a visa.
About the job
Shapes and builds Verkada’s internal identity and access management platform, including infrastructure and automation for provisioning, reviewing, and auditing access.
What you'll do
- Own the platform’s technical architecture and build and operate highly available backend infrastructure.
- Extend identity-provider integrations and automate access requests, approvals, reviews, and audits.
- Ensure access controls meet compliance requirements and set guardrails for AI-driven workflows.
What they ask for
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 5+ years of backend engineering or security platform engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience building access management platforms or identity infrastructure from the ground up.
- Knowledge of identity protocols and access-control models, plus experience with workflow automation and cloud-native infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Okta administration and APIs at scale; Slack-based or chat-ops tools.
- Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy environments.
Pay
$200,000 — $300,000 USD (annual OTE)
Tools
Okta, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
AI focus
Build AI-assisted risk scoring and anomaly detection, automate workflows with AI or LLM-driven tooling, and set guardrails for AI-driven and agentic workflows.
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