Senior Data Engineer (FedRAMP)

SailPoint • Austin, TX

17h • Remote

About The Position

This is a remote role within the United States. Due to FedRAMP requirements, this role requires US citizenship. Join the team building SailPoint Observability & Insights, an industry-leading visualization capability for identity governance that shows every access path from identities to sensitive data and enables fast, policy-driven action from a unified view. This is a Senior role: you will design and build critical systems, set technical direction, and lead cross-team execution. billions of nodes and edges, where backend architecture directly determines UX speed, clarity, and trust.

Requirements

• 5+ years building production software, with substantial time in data engineering at SaaS scale.
• 4+ years owning architecture for commercial data platforms or major data subsystems.
• US Citizenship is required for this position due to FedRAMP support responsibilities.
• Expert experience with Snowflake data modeling and query optimization.
• Strong hands-on experience with dbt, Airflow, and distributed processing patterns (batch + streaming).
• Strong experience with Cassandra and familiarity with graph-oriented data systems.
• Experience building or operating systems that handle billions of relationships with predictable latency and high reliability.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proven record of leading high-complexity projects across team/org boundaries.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code) in a professional engineering workflow, including data modeling, SQL/dbt, and pipeline development, testing, and documentation, with disciplined review before production use.
• Proven ability to improve team-level delivery quality (planning, dependencies, execution, reliability).
• Strong communication skills: can explain tradeoffs to engineers, product leaders, and executives.
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience running data platforms with SLOs and modern observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog).
• Experience instrumenting data jobs and services for performance, quality, and cost visibility.
• Familiarity with IAM/IGA, compliance, security, or privacy-sensitive product domains.
• Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and continuous delivery for data systems.
• Familiarity with data lake patterns and Spark/Flink operational tuning.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and implementation of scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data services for Observability & Insights.
• Own technical strategy for core data domains; align roadmap and design decisions across partner teams.
• Act as primary technical lead for cross-team initiatives with clear delivery outcomes.
• Set and enforce standards for data quality, governance, lineage, observability, and operational readiness.
• Drive performance and cost improvements across Spark/Flink/SQL/CQL workloads and storage patterns.
• Optimize graph-serving data models and access patterns so complex relationship visualizations remain responsive at extreme scale.
• Partner closely with product and UI engineering to deliver low-latency experiences for graph exploration, filtering, and risk investigation.
• Lead design reviews and provide high-signal code and architecture feedback.
• Use AI-assisted development practices to accelerate delivery while upholding architecture, security, data governance, and code-review standards.
• Partner with product, infrastructure, security, and analytics teams to define practical solutions.
• Participate in on-call for critical systems and lead incident follow-throughs that improve system resilience.

Benefits

• SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission
• Potential eligibility for equity participation
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
• Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
• Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
• Flexible vacation policy
• 8 paid holidays annually
• Sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
• 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: Senior