Dir, Software Engineering Management, Platform - Veza

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. This role requires 3 days in office in Redwood City. We are looking for a visionary and experienced Director of Platform Engineering to lead Veza's core platform organization - the foundation that powers everything Veza delivers. This role owns three of the most critical engineering domains in the company: the Access Graph, the integrations ecosystem, and the data pipeline infrastructure that connects them. Together these systems process billions of permissions across the world's most complex enterprise environments. This is a senior leadership role at the intersection of scale, security, and AI-native architecture. You will set the technical vision and drive execution across multiple teams, partnering closely with product, security engineering, SRE and the ServiceNow platform organization as Veza evolves within one of enterprise software's most strategic acquisitions. What you will do We are looking for a visionary and experienced Director of Platform Engineering to lead Veza's core platform organization - the foundation that powers everything Veza delivers. This role owns three of the most critical engineering domains in the company: the Access Graph, the integrations ecosystem, and the data pipeline infrastructure that connects them. Together these systems process billions of permissions across the world's most complex enterprise environments. This is a senior leadership role at the intersection of scale, security, and AI-native architecture. You will set the technical vision and drive execution across multiple teams, partnering closely with Product, Security Engineering, SRE, and the ServiceNow platform organization as Veza evolves within one of enterprise software's most strategic acquisitions. Technical Leadership Define and drive the technical vision and strategy for Veza's platform organization - spanning the Access Graph, integrations ecosystem, and data pipeline infrastructure - ensuring alignment with company goals and the evolving ServiceNow integration roadmap. Own architecture decisions for distributed systems, high-performance graph services, and large-scale data platforms, setting the engineering standards and design patterns that teams across the organization build against. Partner with Tech Leads and Principal Engineers on high-impact architectural decisions, ensuring the platform is built for enterprise-grade scalability, reliability, security, and observability. Identify and champion emerging technologies and approaches - including AI/ML and graph-native capabilities - to continuously advance the platform's performance and intelligence. Establish and drive engineering excellence across the organization: coding standards, design review processes, operational practices, and the reliability and compliance posture required by Veza's enterprise customer base. Cross-functional Collaboration Partner closely with Product, Security Engineering and GTM to translate business objectives and customer needs into platform capabilities, ensuring the roadmap reflects both near-term delivery commitments and long-term architectural investments. Drive execution across complex, multi-team roadmaps - managing dependencies, resolving cross-team blockers, and maintaining delivery velocity across the integrations, graph, and pipeline organizations simultaneously. Represent platform architecture in cross-organizational discussions with the ServiceNow platform teams, ensuring Veza's foundational systems evolve coherently within the broader ServiceNow ecosystem. People Leadership Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineering managers, tech leads, and senior engineers - building a high-performance organization that can operate at startup velocity while scaling to enterprise expectations. Own the full talent lifecycle across the platform organization - hiring, onboarding, retention, performance, and succession - with particular focus on developing the next generation of engineering leaders from within. Create an environment where strong engineers thrive: high autonomy, clear technical direction, meaningful problems, and a culture of craft and accountability.. Experience 12+ years of experience in backend or platform software engineering, with 6+ years in senior engineering leadership roles spanning both startup and enterprise SaaS environments - ideally including experience leading through hypergrowth phase, or major platform transition. Proven track record scaling enterprise SaaS data platforms and distributed systems - designing and delivering infrastructure that operates reliably at billions of data relationshi