Principal Software Engineer

SailPoint

6d • $179,100 - $301,962 • 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.
• Product minded: You can turn complex business requirements into working software that our customers love to use.
• A positive and collaborative demeanor, combined with the ability to coach, mentor and delegate.
• 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.
• Engineers are expected to use AI development tools as a core part of their daily workflow, not as a novelty.
• Expectation to use AI tools to accelerate delivery, expand scope, and raise the quality bar, while applying strong engineering judgment to review, validate, and own everything that ships under your name.
• Comfort with prompting, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop review of AI-generated code is a baseline expectation for this role.
• 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

• Come up to speed on Identity Access Management space.
• Get familiar with our competitors, their product offerings and the direction of their businesses.
• Seek to deeply understand current state of identity security industry, our business problems or common engineering challenges, and as it relates to SailPoint propose software architecture designs to solve them.
• Learn about our Top 5 Project Initiative.
• Interview stakeholders to understand our business goals, product roadmap and challenges ahead of you.
• Develop a technology strategy.
• Ask yourself “how quickly will my solve be outdated?”
• Flexing your lifelong learning muscles, staying abreast of emerging external technologies to understand when to introduce them to your team.
• Presenting and communicating the technological leaps to executives as well as high level stakeholders.
• Recognized as a subject matter expert of SailPoint Services and offerings both internally and externally and giving training sessions, webinars, or speak at conferences.

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 based on the evolving technology landscape.
• Balancing immediate needs with 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.
• Providing architectural leadership across business application domains, data architecture, data integration, security and cloud technologies.
• Setting the standard for excellence in engineering by advocating design and coding best practices.
• Creating and sharing a forward-thinking technical vision for your team.
• Prioritizing projects and defining scopes of work and developing solutions.
• Mentoring and coaching members of your team.
• Owning multiple significant projects.
• Providing technical leadership to your team while also delivering high quality code on your own.
• Leading significant and thoughtful critiques of others’ design documents.
• Consistently achieving targets and meeting deadlines; ensuring the quality of deliverables exceeds expectations.
• Staying abreast of emerging external technologies to understand when to introduce them to your team.
• Defining and executing on new components Engineering Technology Strategy.
• Leading the implementation (Arch/design/Development) of new services and product offerings.
• Presenting and communicating technological leaps to executives as well as high level stakeholders.
• Translating overarching business strategies into actionable technical roadmaps.
• Defining and executing on new components Engineering Technology Strategy.
• Hiring, mentoring, and coaching new team members, fostering a culture of growth and excellence.
• Using AI development tools as a core part of the 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 your 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, along with 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed