Senior Staff Software Engineer
About The Position
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at SailPoint, you will dive into a highly technical, fast-paced role where you drive engineering excellence and architectural direction. Your days will be spent designing, building, and deploying highly scalable, reliable microservices. You will write clean, robust Java code, build advanced prototypes to gather user feedback, and manage high-throughput data transformations. Additionally, you will integrate advanced AI tools such as Claude and Cursor into your daily workflow to accelerate high-quality software delivery. The SailPoint Engineering Organization is a results-driven environment where high-quality professional engineering meets individual impact. Our team builds and maintains products on a mature, cloud-native event-driven microservices architecture hosted in AWS. We are passionate about developer autonomy, technical innovation, and delivering state-of-the-art SaaS platform solutions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong Java experience
- Experience in design/implementation of event-driven architectures and performant micro-services
- Multi-tenant SaaS product development experience - server-side in Java & Go
- Experience in designing, implementing RESTful APIs for an API-first application architecture
- Great communication skills
- BS in Computer Science, or a related field
- Advanced experience with object-oriented analysis and design skills
- Proven experience using AI tools (Claude, Cursor) to build releasable, maintainable code
- Strong understanding of and experience with data pipelines and data transformations at scale
- Must be a US citizen residing in the US.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with Continuous Delivery
- Experience working on a Big Data/Machine Learning product
- Experience instrumenting code for gathering production performance metrics
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in large-scale software development.
Responsibilities
- Drive the design, implementation, and deployment of efficient, maintainable, robust micro-services to deliver medium-to-high complexity features.
- Set a high bar for code/design reviews and fortify the team’s coding/quality standards.
- Collaborate with the technical teams, and product managers to implement features that meets our product vision
- Work in an agile environment, collaborate with peers on designs, technical refinements, code reviews, testing and customer issues.
- Continue to maintain the “We built it, we maintain it” SailPoint culture: Participate in the product OnCall and TechOps process.
- Mentor junior members and guide them on technical solutions.
- Managing development and release process of FedRAMP instances
- Collaborate with peers on designs, code reviews, testing and UX/interactive designs
- Develop automated tests across the full stack, complete with code-coverage metrics
- Produce designs and rough estimates, and implement features based on product requirements.
- Produce unit and end-to-end tests to improve code quality and maximize code coverage for new and existing features.
Benefits
- 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
- SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission
- Potential eligibility for equity participation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
