Sr. Manager, Engineering

SailPoint

2d•$158,900 - $267,860•Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Enterprise Platform, you will lead one or more senior engineering teams responsible for core platform capabilities that the rest of SailPoint builds on. These teams own backend services, APIs, data stores, and the distributed systems that power the Atlas Platform at scale. As a highly technical leader, you will own the operating rhythm and delivery health of your team(s), help solve complex challenges around scalability and reliability, reduce technical debt, and shape where the team invests. You will be expected to reach productivity quickly and to operate close enough to the work to know its real state at any time. Stakeholder management is a significant aspect of this role. You will work closely with Product Management, Design, Architecture, Quality, DevOps, and customer-facing teams. You should proactively seek alignment with other engineering teams and stakeholders by deeply understanding your team's technology, building strong relationships, and insisting on high-quality solutions. You will report to a Senior Director of Engineering.

Requirements

8+ years in a Software Engineering Management role on backend services exposing APIs.
5+ years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer.
Deep knowledge of complex, scaling SaaS products, agile processes and workflows, and experience implementing them.
Technical fluency at the architectural level, enabling easy discussions with engineers and the ability to challenge technical decisions.
Experience with microservice architecture and distributed systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability.
Experience across a modern backend stack, such as polyglot services (Java, Go, Rust), event-driven and workflow-orchestration systems (Kafka, SQS, Temporal), and relational and NoSQL data stores (MySQL, DynamoDB).
Extensive experience architecting, designing, and operating applications in an AWS cloud environment.
Experience supporting and developing containerized CI/CD deployment such as Docker and Kubernetes.
BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Own the day-to-day operating cadence of your team(s), including planning, prioritization, standups, and retrospectives, and use that cadence to stay close to the work, surface risks early, and keep delivery predictable.
Partner with Product Management to set a clear strategic direction and roadmap, and translate it into sequenced, well-scoped execution.
Engage substantively in technical decisions, fluent enough at the architectural level to discuss tradeoffs with senior engineers, challenge design decisions, and guide the team toward sound, scalable solutions.
Coach, grow, and develop engineers along their career paths, and shape the team through hiring and performance management.
Drive scalability, reliability, and technical-debt reduction, and determine where engineering investment should be made.
Manage risk, dependencies, and cross-team commitments, resolving issues proactively rather than escalating them.
Allocate resources across competing priorities and make clear, defensible tradeoff decisions under load.

Benefits

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
SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission
Potential eligibility for equity participation