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Veza · 17 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer

Veza is the identity security company, and they are seeking a passionate Senior Software Engineer to join their Graph team. The role involves designing, improving, and maintaining the code behind the Veza Access Graph, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance identity and access management experiences for customers.

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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Backend software developmentData modelingGraph database systemsRESTful APIsCloud platformsModern programming languagesDistributed systemsProblem-solvingCommunicationMentoring

Required

A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
Proven experience (minimum 5+ 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

Benefits

Equity
A competitive benefits package

Company

Veza

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Veza is a data security platform that helps users use and share their data safely.

H1B Sponsorship

Veza has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (17)
2024 (3)
2023 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$233M
Key Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesThe Syndicate GroupBlackstone Innovations Investments
2025-12-02Acquired
2025-04-28Series D· $108M
2023-09-12Series Unknown

Leadership Team

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Maohua Lu Ph.D
Co-Founder and CTO
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Robert Whitcher
Co-Founder & Chief Architect
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