The Staff Data Platform Software Engineer will design improve and maintain the Veza Access Graph system focusing on performance scalability and collaborating on product features to enhance identity and access management experiences.

Company Description
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.
Job Description
This role requires 3 days in office in Redwood City.
We are looking for a passionate Staff Data Platform Software Engineer to join Veza's Graph team. You will play a key role in designing improving and maintaining the robust and scalable code behind the Veza Access Graph collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to shape the future of our products and deliver exceptional identity and access management experiences to our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of a high-impact startup while working on cutting-edge technologies!
What you will do

• Develop maintain and scale Graph features to directly and indirectly support actionable customer intelligence across various products.
• Drive the performance scalability and reliability of the backend services and APIs for our platform.
• Collaborate with product managers other software engineers and security experts to build product features that meet business objectives and security standards.
• Continuously optimize and improve your work through code and design reviews testing and refactoring.
• Implement logging monitoring and auditing capabilities to ensure visibility and compliance with regulatory requirements and operational health metrics.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies across different fields and leverage them to drive innovation and improve our platform.

Qualifications
Experience:

• Proven experience (minimum 8+ years) in professional backend software development with a focus on data modeling data management identity security or related areas.
• A history with the development of databases storage layers query engines or adjacent tooling.
• Experience with complex relational data models in OLAP systems and/or graph database systems such as Neo4j.
• Deep knowledge of relational algebra and graph algorithms.
• A familiarity with caching mechanisms and distributed systems.
• A proven ability to develop and test code in one or more modern backend programming languages such as Golang or Kotlin.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs in microservice architectures.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or Google Cloud Platform and containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

You Are:

• An excellent problem-solver with high attention to detail.
• Someone who can work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• A strong communicator with the ability to relate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A mentor who helps others become the best versions of themselves.
• A pleasure to work with!
• Able to be onsite 3 days a week in Redwood City

For positions in this location we offer a base pay of $176100 - $308200 plus equity (when applicable) variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications skill level competencies and work location. We also offer health plans including flexible spending accounts a 401(k) Plan with company match ESPP matching donations a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.
Additional Information
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