2 months ago
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.
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About Verkada
Verkada builds a cloud-managed physical security platform for enterprises, combining security cameras, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management with web and mobile software. It sells hardware plus software licenses through a subscription model to organizations like schools, retailers, and industrial sites. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Verkada reports 30,000+ customers worldwide and is privately held.