VP of Engineering, Enterprise Platform
About The Position
Join Us in Defining the Future of Identity Security: VP of Engineering, Enterprise Platform At SailPoint, we are at the forefront of transforming enterprise identity governance. With our next-generation Atlas Platform, we are creating the industry’s most advanced, AI-powered identity security platform. Our mission is clear: unify and simplify identity management across humans, machines, and AI agents, just as CMDB revolutionized IT asset management. Atlas is a productized, externally-facing platform built for customers, not just internal users. We are looking for someone with experience scaling an externally facing, multi-actor platform. We're looking for a VP of Engineering, Enterprise Platform to lead the engineering vision and execution behind our unified platform, Atlas. This role is more than a job — it's an invitation to build the platform that will define the next era of enterprise cybersecurity . Why This Role Matters : As organizations accelerate digital transformation, identity is the new perimeter. From employees and contractors to cloud workloads and AI agents, the complexity of securing access has never been greater. Atlas is our answer to this challenge: a dynamic platform combining identity unification, graph-based intelligence, real-time policy enforcement, and extensibility at scale.
Requirements
- 15+ years of engineering leadership experience
- BS in CS or related field preferred
- Proven leadership in building and leading high-performing platform engineering teams
- Deep experience in cloud-native architecture, identity/security platforms, or large-scale data systems
- Passion for elegant API design, developer experience, and enabling customer/partner ecosystems
- Ability to inspire and align high-performing teams across locations and functions
Nice To Haves
- Experience integrating graph databases (e.g., Neo4j), event-driven systems, or AI/ML pipelines a plus
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a world-class engineering organization responsible for the foundational services of Atlas
- Define and evolve platform architecture to enable real-time access intelligence, policy automation, and extensibility
- Champion an API-first platform strategy to empower our developer and partner ecosystem
- Drive execution across scalable microservices, GraphQL APIs, event-driven pipelines, and AI/ML-integrated services
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams — Product, Design, Security, and Field — to turn vision into reality
- Core platform components: identity services, knowledge graphs, workflow engine, and data pipelines
- Engineering strategy for extensibility, scale, observability, and developer experience
- Developer platform capabilities including SDKs, APIs, integration tooling, and marketplace components
- Innovation pipeline for low-code capabilities, customizable UI, policy engine, and AI/ML extensibility
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
