Manager, Engineering

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc.; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Paid leave

Healthcare coverage

Career growth

Job summary

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc. is hiring an Engineering Manager in Pune. The role focuses on leading a high-performing software team, owning core product development, and delivering cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS.

You will collaborate with US teams in an Agile environment and interview in person. Base in Pune with a hybrid model (2-3 days in office) and strong emphasis on technical excellence, leadership, and mentoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in related field or equivalent professional experience.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience with leading teams.
• Strong Java foundation and modern frontend understanding.
• Proven track record delivering complex software in Agile environments.
• Cloud architecture experience with AWS and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and empower a high-performing software engineering team.
• Own technical development of SailPoint’s core product capabilities.
• Champion technical excellence and review quality code.
• Collaborate with US-based teams and stakeholders in an Agile setting.
• Maintain cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS.

Skills

Java

Frontend architectures

Distributed systems

Cloud/AWS

Leadership

Agile

Code review

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

AWS

Git

Jira

Job description

Business Title: Engineering Manager

This role is based in Pune. This location works on a hybrid model, 2-3 days in the office. You will be required to interview in person.

About SailPoint

SailPoint 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. SailPoint (Nasdaq: SAIL) is defining the new era of adaptive identity security. In a world where non-human identities now significantly outnumber humans, our AI-powered platform unifies identity, security, and data intelligence to protect today’s enterprise from advanced identity-based threats. Built on principles like zero-standing privilege and contextualized risk, our SailPoint platform transforms identity from a point of vulnerability into a powerful security advantage. Trusted by many of the world's leading organizations, SailPoint secures the enterprise with intelligent, autonomous identity security.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and empower a high-performing team of software engineers responsible for owning the technical development of SailPoint’s core product capabilities. In this role, you will champion technical excellence, write and review quality code, debug complex distributed systems issues, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous delivery. You will work in an Agile environment, collaborating closely with US-based teams and stakeholders to build and maintain cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS.

About the Team

At SailPoint, our Engineering team is where high-quality professional engineering meets individual impact. We are a results-driven crew built on innovation, collaboration, and mutual trust. Our team designs and deploys scalable, enterprise-grade identity security products powered by mature cloud architecture and cutting‑edge technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with demonstrated experience building, leading, and managing teams of software engineers
• Strong foundational understanding of software development, particularly in Java, as well as modern front-end architectures
• Proven track record of success delivering complex software solutions in an Agile development environment
• Solid foundation in software engineering principles, distributed systems, and cloud architecture (AWS preferred)
• Exceptional leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills with a passion for continuous improvement
• Strong project management abilities with experience scoping, prioritizing, tracking, and delivering engineering milestones
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across global time zones
• Willingness to maintain at least 4 overlapping working hours with US time zones

AI-assisted engineering

• Our engineers are expected to use AI development tools as a core part of their daily workflow, not as a novelty. We expect you to use these tools to accelerate delivery, expand your scope, and raise the quality bar, while applying strong engineering judgment to review, validate, and own everything that ships under your name.
• Comfort with prompting, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop review of AI-generated code is a baseline expectation for this role.

AI related Technology

• Cursor, Claude Code
• Python-based AI/ML frameworks and libraries such as scikit-learn, pandas, and numpy
• Deep Learning Frameworks such as PyTorch
• LLMs and Foundation Models in Bedrock, VertexAI, or similar

Roadmap for Success

30 Days

Complete SailPoint onboarding, understand our identity security product suite, and get familiar with the cloud-native, event-driven microservices architecture hosted on AWS. Establish relationships with your engineering team, Product Management partners, and US-based counterparts. Understand the current sprint commitments, team workflows, and active technical priorities.

60 Days

Assume day-to-day leadership of the engineering team and run Agile ceremonies effectively. Actively partner with Product Management to review roadmaps, scope incoming projects, and allocate engineering resources. Begin coaching and setting clear performance objectives for direct reports through regular 1:1 mentorship sessions.

90 Days

Own end-to-end project planning, tracking, and risk management for your team's deliverables and key milestones. Maintain a seamless communication cadence with global stakeholders, ensuring overlapping collaboration with the US team. Identify operational bottlenecks and implement process or architectural improvements to raise code quality and team velocity.

6 Months

Drive the successful release of high-impact features and architectural enhancements to production on AWS. Foster a strong culture of career development, mentoring engineers toward their next career milestones. Proactively manage technical risk, system reliability, and resource allocation across multiple simultaneous initiatives.

1 Year

Establish a proven track record of predictable, high-quality product delivery that advances SailPoint’s identity security platform. Scale team capabilities, mentor emerging leaders, and contribute strategic engineering input toward long-term product roadmaps.

About SailPoint India and our Benefits

Nestled in the heart of Pune, a bustling hub of technology and culture, the office exemplifies SailPoint's commitment to excellence. Surrounded by a vibrant atmosphere, the Pune office serves as a strategic center for the company, where cutting-edge solutions are crafted and implemented to address the ever‑evolving challenges in identity security. With a team of highly skilled professionals, the office embodies SailPoint's values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact and Individuals. Our Pune team works under a hybrid model enjoying the office 2-3 days a week (unless otherwise specified). We provide excellent office amenities, competitive salaries and strong benefits:

• Competitive Compensation
• Paid Leave: Competitive vacation policies alongside paid company holidays to help you recharge.
• Comprehensive Healthcare: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Career Growth Opportunities Plus so much more!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.

We deliver the identity solution that spans both the breadth of identities and the depth of context needed to drive real‑time access with confidence.

SailPoint’s employment policy of SailPoint is to provide equal opportunity to all persons, and it is SailPoint’s policy to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. It is SailPoint’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote qualified individuals in all job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, military and/or veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status, and we will ensure that all employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements. SailPoint does not discriminate on the basis of national origin or citizenship status as provided under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Employees and applicants shall not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion, or discrimination because they have engaged in or may engage in any of the following activities: Filing a complaint; Assisting or participating in an investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of the affirmative action provisions of Section 503, VEVRAA, or any other Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or protected veterans; Opposing any act or practice made unlawful by Section 503, VEVRAA, or their implementing regulations in this part, or any other Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or protected veterans; or Exercising any other right protected by section 503, VEVRAA or their implementing regulations.

SailPoint will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified employee or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business. SailPoint’s affirmative action program contains an audit and reporting system which enables us to measure the effectiveness of our program, indicate any need for remedial action, determine the degree to which our objectives have been attained, determine whether protected veterans and individuals with disabilities had had the opportunity to participate in company-sponsored activities, measure our compliance with the program’s specific obligations, and document actions taken to comply with these obligations.