Principal Software Engineer
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Kaseya is the leading provider of complete IT infrastructure and security management solutions for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and internal IT organizations worldwide powered by AI. Kaseyas best-in-breed technologies allow organizations to efficiently manage and secure IT to drive sustained business success. Kaseya has achieved sustained strong double-digit growth over the past several years and is backed by Insight Venture Partners ) a leading global private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software companies that drive transformative change in the industries they serve.
Founded in 2000 Kaseya currently serves customers in over 20 countries across a wide variety of industries and manages over 15 million endpoints worldwide. To learn more about our company and our award-winning solutions go to and for more information on Kaseyas culture.
Kaseya is not your typical company. We are not afraid to tell you exactly who we are and our expectations. The thousands of people that succeed at Kaseya are prepared to go above and beyond for the betterment of our customers.
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Company overview
Kaseya is the category leader in a fast-growing MSP market but still early in realizing its full potential. Over the last decadeKaseyahas built a powerful product portfolio through an aggressive M&A strategy. Today that portfolio spansIT Management Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience powering more than45000 Managed Service Providers (MSPs)and protecting over50 million endpoints worldwide.Yet the company is still in the early innings of its full potential. With the right strategy we see a path to becoming an essential software platform for MSPs (and the SMBs they serve) and Internal IT teams at MMEs (mid-market enterprises)defined by world-class innovation and customer love at scale delivering asustained 2025% growth.
Role overview
This is afoundational leadership role;the work hereimpactshow every product customer and partner experiences Kaseya. Role willberesponsible forbuilding and executing theIdentity and APIstrategy for Kaseyasplatform.
This position demandsdeep technicalexpertiseinIdentityplatformscombinedwith strategic product thinking and cross-functional collaboration.This rolewill work closely withproduct security legal sales andmarketingteams across the organization to build foundational capabilities that become force multipliers for the entire platform.This role shapes the core platform layer that enables engineering teams to build automate andoperatesoftware and AI-enabled systems reliablyatscale.
What will you do
What Youll DoAsa Principal Engineer you will be the technical north star for our IAM and Control Plane strategy. Your role transcends individual features; you willbe responsible forthe long-term health and architectural evolution of our identity the endtoend technical design of IAM services including identity lifecycle management authentication authorization SSO and privileged access controls ensuring they are secure scalable andhighly available.
- Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and evolution ofa securehigh-throughput low-latency IAMsystemsthat power both customer-facing and internal service design and implementation of IAM integrations for SaaS onprem and cloud platforms including federation (SAML OIDC OAuth) MFA andPasswordlesscapabilities.
- Technical Strategy: Define the roadmap for migrating or scaling our legacy authentication and authorization systems into modern distributed architectures.
- Cross-Functional Influence: Work closely with Product Security and UX teams to translate complex business requirements into robust secure technical specifications.
- Mentorship & Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence through deep code reviews technical design documents and mentoring senior engineers.
- Operational Stewardship: Oversee the reliability of a platform under constant load ensuring observability and resilience are baked into the core of the system.
Required Experience (Must-Have Skills)
- Extensive Experience: 10 years of professional experience building and managing software applications at a massive scale (with at least 5 yearsat SrStafforPrincipallevel).
- Identity Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of IAM protocols (OAuth2 OIDC SAML) RBAC/ABAC models and the security implications of session management at the with Active Directory and extensive experience implementing federation protocols (SAML OIDC OAuth2).
- Experience in Data Security or related areas andexpertisein following--Authentication Network Kubernetes Security Web Security Governance Privacy Trust Safety Identity Management Access Control Key Management Inter-Service Authentication Secure Application Frameworks Detection & Response. Experience building systems at large scale internet companies is a huge plus.
- Distributed Systems Mastery: Proventrack recordin designing architecting and debugging large-scale distributed systems that handle global traffic.
- Language Proficiency: Deep knowledge of Go JavaTypeScript Rust or similar is highly valued.
- API Stewardship:Significant experiencedesigning and versioning public-facing APIs that are used by millions of developers.
- Recruit and mentor top-tier engineering talent to scale our security infrastructure.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Observability Advocate: A passion for building observable systems using Prometheus Grafana and Kibana to proactively identify failures.
- Infrastructure as Code: Experience with modern containerized deployment (Docker & Kubernetes) Terraform and infrastructure automation.
- Security Mindset: A background in security engineering or formal verification of protocol implementations.
- Strategic Delivery: A history of leading multi-quarter projects from conception to global rollout in partnership with product owners.
Join the Kaseya growth rocket ship and see how we are #ChangingLives !
Additional information
Kaseya provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race religion age ancestry gender sex sexual orientation national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability veteran status marital status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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Kaseya's IT Complete is an integrated and cost-effective platform to manage everything in IT and security.
