About the role
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 has built a culture centered around innovation, accountability, and results. We are a high-growth, high-performance organization that values individuals who are driven, adaptable, and committed to delivering exceptional outcomes for our customers and teammates alike. At Kaseya, success comes from embracing challenges, moving with urgency, and continuously raising the bar. Role Overview: This is a foundational leadership role; the work here impacts how every product, customer, and partner experiences Kaseya. Role will be responsible for building and executing the Identity and API strategy for K aseya's platform. This position demands deep technical expertise in Identity platforms combined with strategic product thinking and cross-functional collaboration. This role will work closely with product, security, legal, sales, and marketing teams 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, and operate software and AI-enabled systems reliably at scale. What will you do:
What You'll Do As a Principal Engineer, you will be the technical north star for our IAM and Control Plane strategy. Your role transcends individual features; you will be responsible for the long-term health and architectural evolution of our identity systems. Own the end‑to‑end technical design of IAM services, including identity lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, SSO, and privileged access controls, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and highly available. Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and evolution of a secure, high-throughput, low-latency IAM systems that power both customer-facing and internal service APIs. Lead design and implementation of IAM integrations for SaaS, on‑prem, and cloud platforms, including federation (SAML, OIDC, OAuth), MFA, and Passwordless capabilities. 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 Skills: 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. Desirable Skills: 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. 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.
About Kaseya
Kaseya is a leading provider of IT automation software for IT service providers and public and private sector IT organizations. Kaseya's IT automation platform allows IT professionals to proactively monitor, manage, and maintain distributed IT infrastructures remotely, easily, and efficiently with one integrated web-based platform.
Kaseya's integrated web-based platform is complete, powerful, secure, and easy to deploy and administer. The Kaseya managed service platform is designed for IT administrators who need to reduce complexity and increase productivity, and managed service providers that want to pass those benefits to their customers and increase their own profit margins.
Features:
Our IT Automation Software is easy to integrate and implement. The software saves users time and increases staff productivity of businesses. This decreases production errors and increases productivity, allowing users to focus their time on the needs of their clients. Kaseya gives businesses the tools and technology to completely automate and improve their IT services.
Kaseya's K2 Patch Management Software can eliminate time-consuming tasks such as updating and securing networks in multiple locations and domains. With K2, IT professionals will be able to automatically keep servers, workstations, and remote computers updated with the latest security patches and software updates. Our patch management feature is able to make automatic and recurring patch scans, approve or deny patches, automate easy and fast patch deployment, interactively manage patches, flexibly configure patch management, and give comprehensive, scheduled reports.
With Kaseya's Audit and Inventory feature, you are able to track every system you are managing. With this feature, we are able to work with inventory quickly with every workstation and mobile computer on each network. Tracking every system can be done remotely at any location. The Audit and Inventory feature lets you have complete hardware and software inventory across the network.
Kaseya's System Monitoring Software provides user-defined monitoring for all the managed systems on the user's network. With the help of automated alerts, the user receives instant notification of changes and/or problems. The easy and fast set-up gets the software up and running in minutes with no software to install. It monitors servers, workstations, remote computers, Windows Event Logs, and applications. The software's automated LAN discovery and comprehensive reports keep the organization running smoothly and help ensure network security and productivity.
Our PC Remote Access with Live Connect is a fast and secure solution for any network's machines. IT professionals can access servers and workstations with ease without affecting the productivity of other users. Kaseya works on a web-based management platform which allows a single machine to have full control over all endpoints. Live Connect has the tools to do anything and everything with an agent directly.
Kaseya provides Remote Backup Software and disaster recovery for servers, desktops, and workstations. Our remote backup software offers protection, security, and peace of mind for businesses that want to ensure the recoverability of their electronic data. Our backup provides real-time programmed disk remote backup, file-level remote backup, disk imaging, monitoring, and bare metal restore.
Our Endpoint Security Software advises your system's spyware and adware to review any unwanted applications. For example, if there is something detected and pops up as a warning, anti-virus software will block and remove access to that specific program.
The Kaseya IT Management Monitoring Platform provides proactive, user-defined monitoring with instant notification of problems or changes. Receive a system alert when critical servers go down, users alter their configuration, or a possible security threat occurs. We provide IT professionals with the tools they need to proactively manage their systems and keep the organization running efficiently.
With Kaseya's Remote Control Software, IT professionals can quickly access servers, workstations, and mobile computers. Kaseya G1 is able to work behind firewalls and NAT as well. The remote control software can increase productivity and responsiveness by allowing access to computers from anywhere with a standard web browser.
Kaseya's Desktop Migration feature gives users a 3-step process in order to swap users on an existing computer. Kaseya desktop migration backs up all files, restores previous account information, and migrates single users or multiple users for one machine or many machines on a scheduled basis. Kaseya users never need to wonder what state each machine is in during the migration process.
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Job details
Location
Pune, Maharashtra
Funding
Total raised
$500M
Last stage
Growth
Investors
Founders
Mark Sutherland
Co-Founder
Paul Wong
Co-Founder
Fred Voccola
Co-Founder & Former CEO (now Vice Chairman)
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.