Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management Platform

Verkada • San Mateo, CA

4d • $200,000 - $300,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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).

Responsibilities

• 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.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior