Senior Data Platform Software Manager (Graph) - Veza

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

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Sr Data Platform Software Engineering Manager to lead Veza's Graph team - the core of everything Veza does. The Access Graph is Veza's foundational data platform: a patented, AI-native engine that maps and analyzes access relationships across every human, non-human, and agentic identity in an enterprise. This is a high-impact leadership role at the heart of the engineering organization.

You will combine engineering management with deep technical partnership - leading a team of skilled engineers and tech leads, setting the technical vision for graph infrastructure, and driving the performance, scalability, and reliability of Veza's core data platform. You will partner closely with product, integrations, and security engineering teams to evolve the graph's capabilities as Veza scales within the ServiceNow ecosystem.

Technical Leadership

• Own the technical vision and roadmap for Veza's Access Graph platform - the core data layer that powers identity visibility, risk detection, and access governance across the enterprise.
• Drive architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices for graph data modeling, query performance, and scalability at enterprise scale.
• Partner with the Graph Tech Lead and senior engineers on high-impact technical decisions, conducting design and code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to engineering standards.
• Identify and champion new technologies, tools, and approaches, including AI/ML, to continuously advance the Graph platform's capabilities.
• Ensure the Graph platform is built and maintained with high performance, reliability, and observability, including logging, monitoring, and compliance requirements.
• Define and drive detailed engineering execution plans, timelines, and processes that keep the team shipping with quality and predictability.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Integrations, and Security Engineering teams to translate business objectives and customer needs into graph platform capabilities.
• Partner with third-party identity providers, directory services, and cloud platforms - including Active Directory, LDAP, AWS IAM, and major cloud providers - to ensure the Graph platform stays current with the evolving identity landscape.

People Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend software engineers and tech leads, building individual development plans and creating stretch opportunities.
• Own the full talent lifecycle for the Graph team - hiring, onboarding, retention, and performance.

Qualifications

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in backend software engineering with a strong focus on data platforms, distributed systems, or graph infrastructure, and 4+ years in an engineering leadership role - ideally spa