Staff Software Engineer

We Love AI Jobs; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Mentorship program

Job summary

SailPoint is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to architect, build, and deliver high-performance cloud services for our identity platform. You will design resilient full-stack solutions using Golang and Angular, implement microservices, and mentor engineers on the UK Platform Engineering team.

You will collaborate with product managers, architects, and peers to translate complex identity concepts into secure production systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Expertise in Golang and Angular.
• Experience delivering cloud-scale services.
• Leadership and mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver complex features across the Policy Engine and Agentic Fabric.
• Improve service latency, throughput, reliability, and operational practices through profiling and design work.
• Review architecture, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional technical initiatives.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Architecture reviews

System design

Performance profiling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Golang

Angular

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Microservices

Distributed systems

Job description

# Staff Software EngineerSailPointRemote (United Kingdom)Full-timeAI tools:CursorClaude CodePyTorchscikit-learnUpload your resume once and Scout applies for youApply with ScoutShare this job:LinkedInXSave imageThis Staff Software Engineer will architect and deliver cloud services for SailPoint’s identity platform, including its Policy Engine and Agentic Fabric. The role combines full-stack development with technical leadership, performance work, architecture reviews, and mentoring on the UK Platform Engineering team.* Permanent* Fully Remote* 8+ years* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience### Skills and expertiseGolangAngularMicroservicesDistributed systemsAWSKubernetesDockerTerraform### Key responsibilities* Architect and deliver complex features across the Policy Engine and Agentic Fabric.* Improve service latency, throughput, reliability, and operational practices through profiling and design work.* Review architecture, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional technical initiatives.## How this job comparesCompared with 343 open staff engineering jobs on October 10, 2026.Similar open jobs: We Love AI Jobs lists 343 open staff engineering jobs at 113 companies.Remote work: This job is remote. 47 of the 343 staff engineering jobs (14%) are remote.AI in this role: Medium. The role uses AI tools and works with AI systems as a regular part of the job. The primary work is building identity platform services rather than AI models. The role supports AI-related identity initiatives and SailPoint expects AI development tools and agentic workflows to be part of engineers’ daily work.## Full descriptionThis role is based in the United Kingdom. You will be required to interview in person.Must have permanent residency in the UK (I.e. British Passport, Settled Status or ILR)About SailPointSailPoint is defining the next era of identity security. Our unified, AI-powered platform seamlessly secures both the Human Fabric of your workforce and the Agentic Fabric of AI and non-human identities, completely eliminating organizational blind spots.Built on core principles like zero-standing privilege and contextualized risk, our platform transforms identity from a vulnerability into a strategic business advantage. Today, we are trusted by some of the largest, most complex organizations in the world to deliver intelligent, autonomous identity security at scale.About the role.As a Staff Software Engineer at SailPoint, you will architect, build, and deliver high-performance cloud services that form the core decision-making brain of our identity platform. In this role, your day-to-day will involve designing resilient full-stack solutions using Golang and Angular, engineering synchronous and event-driven microservices, and pioneering AI-assisted and agentic development workflows. You will collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, architects, and global engineering peers to translate complex identity governance concepts into performant, elegant, and secure production systems. You will also take active ownership of technical excellence across our codebase through architecture reviews, system profiling, and developer mentorship.About the teamYou will join the UK Platform Engineering team, a collaborative, high-velocity group responsible for designing, building, and running foundational services for SailPoint. Our team currently features a strong mix of backend and frontend specialists transitioning to end-to-end full-stack development to support cutting-edge AI and identity initiatives. We value autonomy, continuous learning, and close teamwork, staying connected through day-to-day collaboration and meeting in person once per quarter for team offsites.Roadmap for success30 days:• Complete SailPoint engineering onboarding, development environment setup, and security compliance training.• Shadow team members to understand the architecture, API contracts, and deployment pipelines of the Policy Engine.• Deliver your first bug fix or minor feature contribution to production using Golang or Angular.60 days:• Partner with technical leads, architects, and product managers to define technical specifications and rough estimates for upcoming roadmap items.• Build, test, and deploy end-to-end features supporting real-time and batch policy evaluation workflows.• Conduct thorough code reviews and collaborate with peers on unit and integration testing strategies.6 months:• Lead the autonomous design, implementation, and deployment of complex features across the Policy Engine and SailPoint Agentic Fabric.• Establish debug and performance profiling benchmarks to improve service latency, throughput, and reliability.• Participate in the 24x7 engineering on-call support rotation (approximately 1 week in 20) and drive operational improvements.1 year:• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Policy Engine services and distributed system architecture.• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level software engineers on modern software design patterns, Golang, Angular, and AI-assisted tooling.• Drive cross-functional architectural initiatives in collaboration with engineering teams worldwide as the platform scales.Requirements