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Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management Platform
Verkada INC · 🇺🇸 San Mateo, CA United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 55 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 19 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Verkada INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles24 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $150k–$220k, median $188k. Most were filed at wage level I (38%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Verkada INC
The US Department of Labor certified 55 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 19 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Who We Are Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation , more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it. You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries. About the Role 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. What You'll Do • 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 What You'll Need • 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 Bonus Points • 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). US Employee Benefits Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering com