Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management Platform

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

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
• 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