About Kaseya
Kaseya is the leading provider of AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software, serving Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and internal IT organizations worldwide. Our comprehensive platform helps organizations efficiently manage, secure, and automate their IT environments, driving operational efficiency and long-term business success.
Backed by Insight Partners, a leading global software investor, Kaseya has experienced sustained double-digit growth and continues to expand its global footprint. Today, Kaseya supports customers in more than 20 countries and manages over 15 million endpoints worldwide.
Founded in 2000, Kaseya was built by builders - and we're still building. We look for people who create rather than wait, who see a hard problem and lean in, and who treat challenges as raw material. At Kaseya, everyone plays a role in shaping the future of IT: whether you're in engineering, product, sales, marketing, customer support, or operations, your work helps protect, defend, and optimize IT environments across the globe.
We're building teams that grow, perform, and make an impact. If you're driven by the itch to make things better - a product, a process, a career - you'll fit right in.
At Kaseya, we don't just raise the bar. We build it.
Position Summary:
Kaseya is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of its Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Control Plane platform. This role will define the long-term technical strategy for authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle management, SSO, MFA, and API security while building secure, scalable, and highly available distributed systems. The ideal candidate will drive architectural decisions, modernize legacy identity platforms, collaborate across Product, Security, and Engineering, mentor senior engineers, and establish engineering best practices. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for shaping Kaseya's Identity and API strategy, enabling secure, reliable, and AI-ready platform capabilities across the organization's products and services.
Required Qualification:
- Extensive Experience: 10+ years of professional experience building and managing software applications at a massive scale (with at least 5 years at Sr Staff or Principal level).
- Identity Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of IAM protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), RBAC/ABAC models, and the security implications of session management at the edge.
- Experience with Active Directory and extensive experience implementing federation protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth2).
- Experience in Data Security or related areas and expertise in 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: Proven track record in designing, architecting, and debugging large-scale distributed systems that handle global traffic.
- Language Proficiency: Deep knowledge of Go, Java, TypeScript, Rust, or similar is highly valued.
- API Stewardship: Significant experience designing and versioning public-facing APIs that are used by millions of developers.
- Recruit and mentor top-tier engineering talent to scale our security infrastructure.
Preferred Qualification:
- 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.
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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.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional experience in software applications
- 5+ years in a Sr Staff or Principal role
- Deep understanding of IAM protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML)
- Experience with Active Directory and implementing federation protocols
- Proven track record in large-scale distributed systems
- Deep knowledge of Go, Java, TypeScript, Rust, or similar
- Experience designing public-facing APIs
Kaseya Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kaseya and has not been reviewed or approved by Kaseya.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is commonly described around 20–21 days per year plus standard holidays. Some indicate they can fully disconnect while on leave.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity or option grants are available to many roles, offering potential upside beyond base pay. This exposure is presented as a meaningful component of total compensation for some roles.
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Affordable Benefits — The high‑deductible medical plan is described as having low or employer‑covered employee‑only premiums in some cases. This can reduce out‑of‑pocket costs for those who select the HDHP.
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What We Do
Kaseya is a premier provider of unified IT management and security software for managed service providers (MSPs) and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBS). Through its customer-centric approach, Kaseya delivers best-in-breed technologies that allow organizations to efficiently manage, secure and backup IT. Kaseya offers a broad array of IT management solutions, including well-known names: Kaseya, IT Glue, RapidFire Tools, Spanning Cloud Apps, ID Agent, Graphus, RocketCyber, TruMethods and Unitrends. These solutions empower businesses to command all of IT centrally, easily manage remote and distributed environments, simplify backup and disaster recovery, safeguard against cybersecurity attacks, effectively manage compliance and network assets, streamline IT documentation and automate across IT management functions. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Kaseya is privately held with a presence in over 20 countries.
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