Sr Staff Software Engineer

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 13,308,000 - 21,863,000; Full time

Job summary

SailPoint is seeking a seasoned Principal or Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale high-throughput microservices and SaaS infrastructure in a cloud-native AWS environment. You will lead complex technical initiatives, mentor senior engineers, and work with product and UX teams to deliver robust software that shapes the future of identity security for global enterprises.

Ideal candidates bring 14+ years of experience in enterprise SaaS, deep Java expertise, and a track record of

Qualifications

• 14+ years of progressive software development in enterprise SaaS or distributed systems.
• Deep Java expertise: Java 11/17+, concurrency, JVM performance tuning.
• Experience designing event-driven microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Front-end experience with React/TypeScript and ES6+ build pipelines.
• Strong automated testing and CI/CD discipline.
• Excellent communication and technical leadership.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/SE or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and scale microservices in a cloud-native AWS environment.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with product and UX teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and drive architectural decisions.
• Implement rigorous testing and ensure high code coverage.
• Contribute to observability, monitoring, and reliability.

Skills

Core Java

Distributed systems

React/TypeScript

Testing & CI/CD

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/SE

Tools

AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda)

Kafka/Kinesis

Datadog/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry

OAuth2/OpenID Connect/SAML

Job description

About SailPoint

SailPoint is the global leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. We empower the world's most influential organizations to securely unlock the power of their workforce and technology. By harnessing the power of advanced AI, machine learning, and cloud-native architecture, SailPoint provides intelligent, automated identity governance that seamlessly secures access to applications, data, and critical infrastructure. Driven by our core values—Innovation, Integrity, Impact, and Individuals—we foster an inclusive, high-trust engineering culture where curiosity and technical excellence thrive. Joining SailPoint means tackling complex distributed systems challenges at global scale while safeguarding millions of user identities worldwide.

Role Overview

Are you passionate about building mission-critical enterprise systems and eager to drive real architectural impact? At SailPoint, our Engineering team is where world-class software craftsmanship meets direct customer impact. We are seeking a seasoned Principal or Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale reliable, high-throughput microservices and SaaS infrastructure. Our platform is built on a mature, cloud-native, event-driven microservices architecture hosted in AWS, securing identity governance for the world's leading global enterprises. In this role, you will lead complex technical initiatives, mentor senior peers, collaborate across product and UX teams, and deliver robust software that defines the future of identity security.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Architect & Build Scalable Services: Design and implement robust, high-performance, and resilient microservices in a modern Java ecosystem, exposing performant REST and event-driven APIs.
• Full Stack & UI Leadership: Collaborate with product and UX designers to build responsive, modern front-end interfaces (React, TypeScript, or modern ES6+ frameworks) and rapid prototypes to validate design decisions.
• System Design & Modeling: Lead domain modeling, object-oriented analysis, and technical design discussions for distributed SaaS applications hosted in AWS.
• Raise the Engineering Bar: Drive engineering excellence through rigorous code reviews, automated testing (unit, integration, and end-to-end), continuous delivery, and comprehensive code coverage metrics.
• Observability & Operational Excellence: Instrument services for performance monitoring, telemetry, tracing, and logging to ensure high availability and proactive issue resolution in production.
• Technical Mentorship & Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional peers—product managers, UX architects, and DevOps engineers—to scope initiatives, estimate complexity, and mentor engineering talent.

What You’ll Bring (Requirements)

• 14+ years of progressive, hands‑on professional software development experience building enterprise SaaS or distributed systems.
• Deep Core Java Expertise: Advanced mastery of modern Java (Java 11/17+), concurrency, design patterns, and JVM performance tuning.
• Distributed Systems & Architecture: Proven track record designing and maintaining event-driven microservices and RESTful API ecosystems.
• Full Stack Proficiency: Solid hands‑on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) and modern front-end build pipelines (ES6+).
• Engineering Rigor: Passion for automated testing (TDD/BDD, JUnit, Mockito, Cypress/Selenium) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Communication & Leadership: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate architectural decisions to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud Native Ecosystems: Direct experience architecting and operating production workloads on AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, RDS).
• Data & AI/ML Systems: Experience integrating with or designing for Big Data pipelines, streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis), or AI/ML-driven product features.
• Production Observability: Hands‑on experience with metrics and APM tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Security & Identity Governance: Prior exposure to Identity and Access Management (IAM), OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, or RBAC/ABAC models.

30 / 60 / 90-Day Success Plan

This roadmap provides clear expectations and milestones to empower you to ramp up quickly, integrate with the team, and deliver meaningful architectural impact.

First 30 Days: Onboard, Understand & First Ship Architecture Immersion: Build a deep understanding of SailPoint’s domain, platform topology, event-driven microservices, data pipelines, and AWS infrastructure. Environment & Tooling: Set up local and cloud dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, test automation suites, and observability dashboards. Team Alignment: Complete 1:1s with engineering peers, product managers, UX partners, and architects to understand priorities and existing pain points. First Production Delivery: Implement, test, and deploy an initial bug fix or small enhancement to production to validate the end-to-end deployment workflow.

Days 31–60: Ownership, Feature Delivery & Design Collaboration Take Ownership: Assume technical ownership of a primary microservice component or full‑stack feature stream. Architectural RFCs: Author and present technical design documents/RFCs for upcoming initiatives, incorporating feedback from security and architecture teams. Full Stack Delivery: Collaborate closely with UX and product counterparts to design and deliver intuitive interfaces and supporting backend APIs. Quality & Observability: Enhance automated test coverage and set up proactive alerting/telemetry metrics for services under your care.

Days 61–90: Leadership, Scale & Strategic Impact Autonomous Execution: Lead end-to-end delivery of high-priority roadmap deliverables, ensuring high throughput, reliability, and zero‑downtime releases. System Optimization: Identify architectural bottlenecks, technical debt, or scale limits in data persistence/streaming layers and execute performance tuning initiatives. Engineering Mentorship: Actively review peer code, lead architectural discussions, and mentor mid‑level and senior engineers on design and coding standards. Roadmap Contribution: Partner with Product Management to help scope future quarters, translating business vision into scalable engineering milestones.

Equal Opportunity Statement

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team. 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.

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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. 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. 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.

The 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.