Principal Software Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to leadership responsibilities, competitive salary, and the opportunity to shape the integration of advanced technology solutions.
- Significant salary range: $184,800 – $240,000
- Major role in leading tech innovations
- Shape the future of product integrations
Pros
- Compensation range from $184,800 to $240,000 reflects significant industry demand
- Opportunity to influence product direction in a critical team
- Involvement with AI/ML in developing new integrations
Cons
- High level of technical expertise required
- Leadership responsibilities may increase workload
- Navigating complex integration requirements may be challenging
Who it's for
Senior / Principal • Remote
Good fit
- Senior engineers with strong integration backgrounds
- Candidates eager to lead technical teams
- Professionals with a drive for innovation
Not recommended for
- Individuals lacking technical leadership experience
- Entry-level engineers without project input experience
- Candidates who prefer limited interaction with complex systems
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
About the opportunity:
We are looking for a passionate Principal-level Integration Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining product features of our IAM platform for our Integrations. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to implement robust and scalable solutions that meet the evolving needs of 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 in the field of identity and access management.
The Integrations team builds the services which ingest data from external integrations (e.g. AWS, Okta) into the Veza platform, enabling Veza's suite of next-gen features across our wide (and widening!) array of supported integrations. You will be exposed to a breadth of software products and have the opportunity to dig deep into large and complex data systems as you determine an efficient, yet comprehensive way to represent each integration's unique access relationships in Veza's data model. You will also drive the scalable way of adding integrations leveraging the latest AI/ML models.
Veza can only do what its integrations enable; you will work closely with all other engineering teams as you enable them to consume your integrations' data and provide advanced tools to allow our customers to easily manage their entire Enterprise ecosystem.
You will:
- Design, develop, and build integrations with services like AWS, GCP, Azure and resources like Box, Hashicorp, Databricks. These integrations have to be built ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Lead a team of backend software engineers, providing mentorship and guidance to help them grow their skills and expertise.
- Drive the technical direction for assigned projects, defining architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
- Drive the technical approach for a scalable way of adding integrations leveraging the latest AI/ML models.
- Working with PM/SE/Support & Customers on requirements, engineering/writing connectors, fielding EACs and feature request
You have:
Education:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience:Proven experience minimum 5+yrs in backend software development, with a focus on data modeling, data management, identity, security, or related areas.
- Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Golang, Java.
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
- Experience in optimization, building of databases, storage layers, or distributed systems.
- Experience with building pluggable software modules that allows code decouplings.
- Experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL), caching mechanisms, and distributed systems.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, is a plus.
- 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.
The compensation for this role depends on several factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates offered a position at the posted job level, the provided range is the expected base salary. This does not include any additional variable compensation, such as commission.
Our Culture
We’re driven to build a strong company culture and are looking for individuals with solid alignment with the following:
- Ownership Mindset
- Act with Integrity
- Guardians of our Customers
- Opinionated Humility
- Build Trust, Earn Trust
At Veza, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range can be discussed with your recruiter for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for equity and a competitive benefits package.
Veza is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants according to applicable federal, state, and local laws. If a candidate with a disability requires an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email recruiting@veza.com
About Veza
Veza is the identity security company. Identity and security teams use Veza to secure identity access across SaaS apps, on-prem apps, data systems, and cloud infrastructure. Veza solves the blind spots of traditional identity tools with its unique ability to ingest and organize permissions metadata in the Veza Authorization Graph. Global enterprises like Blackstone, Wynn Resorts, and Expedia trust Veza to visualize access permissions, monitor permissions activity, automate access reviews, and remediate privilege violations. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures. Visit us at veza.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
