Staff Software Engineer

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less.

Want to be on a team that full of results\-driven individuals who are constantly seeking to innovate? Want to make an impact? At SailPoint, our Engineering team does just that. Our engineering is where high\-quality professional engineering meets individual impact. Our team creates products are built on a mature, cloud\-native event\-driven microservices architecture hosted in AWS.

SailPoint is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform group that provides the foundation for our cloud\-based SaaS Identity Security Cloud solution. We are looking for experienced, well\-rounded backend engineers who are passionate about building and delivering reliable, scalable microservices and infrastructure for SaaS products.

• *Responsibilities**

• Deliver efficient, maintainable, robust Java or Golang based microservices.
• Produce designs and rough estimates, and implement features based on product requirements.
• Collaborate with peers on designs, code reviews, and testing

Produce unit and end\-to\-end tests to improve code quality and maximize code coverage for new and existing features.

• *Requirements**

• 8\+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong Java experience
• Comprehensive experience with an object\-oriented programming language and techniques
• Deep understanding of modern architectural patterns for SaaS systems (e.g., microservices, event\-driven architecture, distributed systems).
• Strong communications skills, including the ability to understand requirements and articulate technical solutions at the appropriate level of technical depth.
• Independent, highly motivated engineer who drives work forward with minimal oversight

BS in Computer Science, or a related field

• *Preferred**

• Experience with AWS
• Experience with CI/CD
• Hands\-on experience building and tracking service\-level objectives (SLOs) with contemporary monitoring/observability platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)
• Familiarity with distributed data processing patterns (batch \+ streaming) and platforms (Snowflake, Airflow, Apache Flink)
• Familiarity with AI

Go experience is a plus

• *What Success Looks Like in this role**

• *Within the first 30 days you will:**

• Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology, proactively meet peers and stakeholders, set up your development environment.
• Seek to deeply understand the technology or common engineering challenges
• Take on and deliver your first work tasks.

• *By 90 days:**

• Proactively implement different enhancements, defect fixes by interacting independently with different (sometimes *many* ) stakeholders, architects and members of your team.
• Take a committed approach to contributing to different projects development alongside less experienced engineers on your team—there’s no room for ivory towers here.

• *By 6 months:**

• Collaborates with Product Management and Engineering Manager to estimate and develop small to medium complexity features more independently.
• Lead projects with small group of 1\-2 members. Participate in resource planning, backlog refinement activity.
• Occasionally serve as an analysis expert during escalations of systems issues that have evaded the ability of less experienced engineers to solve in a timely manner.
• Share support of critical team systems by participating in calls with customers, learning the characteristics of currently running systems, and participating in improvements.

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.

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