Principal Go Engineer, Cloud & Edge AI Security

Medium; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Saviynt is seeking a principal backend engineer to architect and build the AI security platform for enterprise identity and privileged access. You will design scalable Go microservices powering the Cloud Control Plane and edge backends, ensuring policy management, AI governance, and secure data handling.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and collaborate on distributed systems using Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native tech to safeguard AI-enabled enterprises.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of Principal-level backend software engineering experience with a SaaS company.
• Expert-level Go (Golang) development.
• Deep experience building distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, REST APIs, and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/NATS or similar distributed infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of networking, authentication, authorization, TLS, proxies, and distributed caching.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and AI-enabled architectures.
• Strong technical leadership, architecture, mentoring, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the next-generation AI Security platform for enterprise identity and privileged access.
• Design and develop highly scalable microservices in Go that power the Cloud Control Plane and distributed Edge Backends.
• Build the Cloud Control Plane responsible for policy management, AI governance, discovery orchestration, analytics, reporting, and APIs.
• Build distributed Edge Backends that operate as local Points of Presence for headquarters, regional hubs, branch offices, and data centers.
• Design resilient policy synchronization from Cloud → Edge → Endpoint with secure fail-closed enforcement.
• Build enterprise-scale discovery services for cloud resources, on-prem infrastructure, endpoints, applications, databases, and AI agents.
• Develop access-brokering capabilities that enable privileged access to applications, machines, and services.
• Design highly available, observable, and resilient distributed systems using modern cloud-native technologies.
• Mentor engineers, lead architecture discussions, and drive engineering best practices.

Skills

Go expert

Distributed systems

Golang

Kubernetes

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka/NATS

Networking security

AI tooling

Architecture leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Saviynt is seeking a principal backend engineer to architect and build the AI security platform for enterprise identity and privileged access. You will design scalable Go microservices powering the Cloud Control Plane and edge backends, ensuring policy management, AI governance, and secure data handling.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and collaborate on distributed systems using Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native tech to safeguard AI-enabled enterprises.