Sr Software Engineer - Agent Identity Security - Veza

About the Position

We are looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer, Backend who will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining the next frontier of Agent Identity Security. The team is advancing Agent Identity Security as AI agents and copilots rapidly expand across enterprise systems. The team drives innovation, defines next-generation IGA for non-human identities and agents, and helps shape new industry standards as the AI agent ecosystem evolves. Its work includes discovering agents, tracking their actions, and defining access management and runtime authorization capabilities to maintain a strong security posture.

Responsibilities

• Architect and Build: Design, develop, and scale a comprehensive identity security solution for AI agents, ensuring it can manage a diverse landscape of agents deployed across different applications and systems.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product management, other engineering teams, and security experts to translate complex security challenges into robust, scalable, and production-grade features.
• End-to-End Ownership: Take ownership of the entire feature lifecycle, from initial concept and design through to deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• AI-Driven Engineering: Leverage AI techniques and tools to advance and strengthen Agent Security product.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: Proven 3+ years in backend software development, with a focus on APIs, Microservices Architecture or related areas.
• Skills:
  • Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Golang, Java.
  • Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and Microservices Architectures.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, and familiarity with IAM services and features.
  • Innate love for Distributed Systems (designing, developing, debugging, monitoring).

Nice to Have

• Experience with Containerization and Orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, is a plus.
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL), caching mechanisms, and distributed systems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong sense of Product feature Ownership – from Ideation to Deployment.

We Offer

• Base pay of $143,200 - $243,400, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation, and benefits.
• Health plans, including flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) Plan with company match.
• ESPP, matching donations.
• Flexible time away plan and family leave programs.

About the Company

Veza is the pioneer in identity security, purpose-built to answer the fundamental question enterprises face: who can and should take what action on what data. Veza's Access Graph platform maps an organization's entire identity ecosystem across users, groups, roles, policies, permissions, and resources providing deep visibility and control over human, non-human, and agentic identities across SaaS, cloud, on-prem, and custom applications. With over 30 billion access permissions under management, global enterprises including Blackstone, Expedia, and Wynn Resorts trust Veza to manage privileged access monitoring, non-human identity security, access entitlement management, and next-generation identity governance.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Veza is now part of the ServiceNow family, with the acquisition closing in March 2026. The combination brings together Veza's AI-native Access Graph with ServiceNow's AI Control Tower and agentic workflows, enabling organizations to enforce end-to-end identity security rooted in the principle of least privilege across applications, data, cloud environments, and AI agents.

For engineers joining Veza today, this means the scale and resources of an enterprise platform company, with the product velocity and mission-driven focus of a security innovator at a pivotal moment in the industry.

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