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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** Verkada Inc. - **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Build Automation, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, OAuth, OpenID, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Okta, Large Language Models, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-identity-access-management-platform-verkada-9869890 ## About the Role * 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, * 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). ## Description 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., * 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 ## Related Videos - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Get started with securing your cloud-native Java microservices applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/123-get-started-with-securing-your-cloud-native-java-microservices-applications) - [Delegating the chores of authenticating users to Keycloak](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1558-delegating-the-chores-of-authenticating-users-to-keycloak) - [Delay the AI Overlords: How OAuth and OpenFGA Can Keep Your AI Agents from Going Rogue](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1637-delay-the-ai-overlords-how-oauth-and-openfga-can-keep-your-ai-agents-from-going-rogue) - [Un-complicate authorization maintenance](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/889-un-complicate-authorization-maintenance) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers)