Principal Software Engineer

SailPoint•Austin, TX

4d•Remote

About The Position

As a Principal Software Engineer at SailPoint, you will be a key member of our engineering leadership team, driving the overall design and development of our Identity Security Platform, Atlas. You will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between business objectives and technical execution. You will need to possess a deep understanding of our business landscape, including market dynamics, customer needs, and strategic goals. Your primary responsibility will be to translate this business insight into actionable technical requirements and innovative design solutions. You are immensely passionate about platform architecture, and delivering reliable, scalable microservices and infrastructure for SaaS products. You will interact with technical teams across SailPoint to architect systems that scale to process billions of events and support millions of users. You enjoy technical leadership, technical design and solving complex challenges as much as you enjoy getting your hands into the code. Future thinker - You constantly think about the security, reliability and resiliency of our platform and how to maintain it. You believe that it’s not a matter of if we will be attacked, but when. Every decision you make is based on that premise. Technology choices that scale – you understand our technology landscape, the direction that technology is evolving, when something will be obsolete, and can make sound decisions or assumptions based on those factors. Business minded - You understand our total addressable market and you know who our competitors are and what they are building. You understand where SailPoint is headed. You can balance immediate needs (escalations, customer satisfaction) and understand the long-term impacts of your decisions. Urgency to scale (pace), you don’t get distracted by analysis paralysis. Thought leader - Be the evangelist of our SaaS Platform architecture and influence Product Management, Engineering leaders & entire SaaS Engineering to the reference architecture. You keep up with technology and the direction it’s going. You have a firm grasp on how to assess new tools and make informed decisions on whether or not change is in order. You have high communication standards for yourself and others

Requirements

10+ years of experience in a Software Platform Architect role, designing and driving the technical design of large-scale commercial, enterprise-class, multi-tenant distributed SaaS software in domains such as Security, CRM, ERP, etc.
Deep understanding of modern technologies and paradigms and are excited to learn new ones (e.g. Golang, Docker, Redis, Postgres, GraphQl, Python, Kafka, Terraform, Timescale, AWS)
Extensive experience in modern SaaS architecture & platforms, REST & other API concepts, design patterns, messaging, security, availability, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
Experience decomposing monoliths and moving to distributed systems
Superior communication skills
Life-long learner- you stay up to date with technology trends, spend time learning new technologies, and share your leanings with your team.
AI-assisted engineering: Engineers are expected to use AI development tools as a core part of their daily workflow, not as a novelty.
Comfort with prompting, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop review of AI-generated code is a baseline expectation for this role.
AI related Technology: Cursor, Claude Code
Python-based AI/ML frameworks and libraries such as scikit-learn, pandas, and numpy
Deep Learning Frameworks such as PyTorch
LLMs and Foundation Models in Bedrock, VertexAI, or similar

Nice To Haves

A positive and collaborative demeanor, combined with the ability to coach, mentor and delegate

Responsibilities

Driving the overall design and development of our Identity Security Platform, Atlas.
Bridging the gap between business objectives and technical execution.
Translating business insight into actionable technical requirements and innovative design solutions.
Architecting systems that scale to process billions of events and support millions of users.
Thinking about the security, reliability and resiliency of our platform.
Making sound technology decisions or assumptions based on the evolving technology landscape.
Balancing immediate needs (escalations, customer satisfaction) and understanding the long-term impacts of decisions.
Being the evangelist of our SaaS Platform architecture and influencing Product Management, Engineering leaders & entire SaaS Engineering to the reference architecture.
Assessing new tools and making informed decisions on whether or not change is in order.
Translating overarching business strategies into actionable technical roadmaps.
Hiring, mentoring, and coaching new team members, fostering a culture of growth and excellence.
Turning complex business requirements into working software that customers love to use.
Using AI development tools as a core part of their daily workflow to accelerate delivery, expand scope, and raise the quality bar.
Applying strong engineering judgment to review, validate, and own everything that ships under their name.
Comfort with prompting, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop review of AI-generated code.

Benefits

Competitive Compensation
Flexible Time Off: Trust-based vacation policies alongside paid company holidays to help you recharge.
Comprehensive Healthcare: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance options
Career Growth Opportunities
Plus so much more!
SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission
Potential eligibility for equity participation.
Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability
Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy
Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
Sick leave
Parental support: Paid parental leave
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution