Join Verkada as a Senior IAM Engineer to lead identity and access management in a cloud-native environment.
Posted by employer 5 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 hour ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 hour ago
What you'll build
- Manage identity and access infrastructure as code in Terraform
- Advance zero trust controls for engineering access
- Own the access lifecycle for human and non-human identities
- Operate access review and certification workflows
- Build agentic workflows on a low-code orchestration platform
Must have
- 3+ years working hands-on with identity and access management
- Deep AWS IAM expertise
- Fluency with identity protocols and access models
- Ability to build automation for your own work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
AI in the day-to-day
Verkada uses AI to enhance security solutions and automate workflows.
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior IAM Engineer at Verkada, the individual will manage and optimize identity and access management processes, transforming them into automated, self-service systems. Key skills include expertise in AWS IAM, Terraform, and identity protocols such as SAML and OAuth 2.0, alongside a strong ability to build automation tools. This position is ideal for someone with over three years of hands-on experience in cloud-native environments, particularly those who can effectively communicate complex access decisions across various stakeholders. Verkada's focus on zero trust principles and automation reflects its commitment to enhancing security in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 19, 2026. Last confirmed on Verkada's careers page September 19, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$168,000).
- Starts above 82% of 68 comparable senior security roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $163,173 across 43 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 27.7% of 311 comparable senior security roles in United States; RBAC appears in 1% of 311 comparable senior security roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Verkada lists $200,000–$300,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Senior+ IAM Engineer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: ABAC, AWS, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Okta, RBAC.
- Does Verkada sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Verkada targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior+ IAM Engineer role at Verkada.
From the original posting
Who We Are
About the Role
As a Senior IAM Engineer on the Security team, you will set the standard for identity and access across Verkada, owning how access is defined, granted, reviewed, and revoked throughout our infrastructure. From codifying identity boundaries in Terraform and Rego to driving least privilege across AWS roles and policies on zero trust principles, your work will turn access management from a manual ticket queue into a self-service system powered by scripts and agentic workflows.
What You'll Do
- Manage identity and access infrastructure as code in Terraform, with peer-reviewed change control, drift detection, and policy-as-code.
- Advance zero trust controls for engineering access: short-lived credentials, just-in-time elevation, and the elimination of standing privilege.
- Own the access lifecycle for both human and non-human identities: joiner/mover/leaver flows, service accounts, and agents.
- Operate access review and certification workflows that produce audit evidence.
- Write tools to surface over-permissioned identities, unused credentials, and policy drift; then drive remediation to completion.
- Build agentic workflows on a low-code orchestration platform to automate access requests, approvals, risk scoring, and access review campaigns.
- Partner with security, infrastructure, and product engineering teams so that the secure path is the easy path, and consult on IAM design for new services.
What You'll Need
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years working hands-on with identity and access management in a cloud-native engineering environment
- Deep AWS IAM expertise: policy evaluation logic, permission boundaries, assume-role patterns, SCPs, and the ways they fail in practice and how to express them in Terraform
- Fluency with identity protocols and access models (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM; RBAC, ABAC, or policy-based access), plus working knowledge of Okta administration and APIs: SSO, provisioning, group rules, and authentication policies
- Ability to build automation for your own work, using either scripting or low-code/no-code orchestration platforms, including LLM or agent-driven steps
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills — you can explain an access decision to an engineer, an auditor, and an executive
- 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
Annual Pay Range
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
Standard company text repeated across Verkada's postings is omitted here.