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Staff Software Engineer in USA

Verkada
Full time
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USA
09/03/2026
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San Mateo, CA

Responsibilities

Own the technical architecture and strategy for Verkada’s internal identity and access management platform.
Design, build, and operate highly available and observable backend infrastructure for access provisioning and review.
Develop integrations with identity providers such as Okta, including custom roles, entitlement mapping, and infrastructure-as-code management.
Automate access review, approval, risk scoring, anomaly detection, and self-service provisioning workflows.
Build developer-friendly chat-based tools for requesting, approving, and auditing access.
Ensure access controls meet compliance requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years of backend engineering or security platform engineering experience.
Demonstrated experience building access management platforms or identity infrastructure from the ground up.
Strong understanding of identity primitives, least-privilege access, and OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, or SCIM.
Experience implementing role-based, policy-based, or attribute-based access control models.
Experience replacing manual workflows with automation, ideally using AI or LLM-driven tooling.
Experience operating highly available infrastructure in cloud-native environments with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred experience with Okta administration and APIs at scale, Slack-based or chat-ops tooling, and regulated environments such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.

Benefits

Healthcare programs include at least one plan with 100% employee premium coverage and 80% family premium coverage under all plans.
Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage is available.
HSA contributions, FSA options, expanded mental health support, paid parental leave, and fertility benefits are offered.
Benefits include paid holidays, extended firmwide holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
The company provides a professional development stipend, wellness and fitness benefits, daily healthy lunches, and commuter benefits.
The company sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role.

Verkada

Verkada builds an integrated, AI-powered platform that revolutionizes cloud-based physical security solutions. Catering to over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies, they simplify safety management with a suite of products including video security, access control, and s...

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