Principal Software Engineer

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 179,000 - 302,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Healthcare

Career Growth Opportunities

Equity options

Job summary

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and development of Atlas, our Identity Security Platform. You will shape architecture, guide engineering leaders, and translate business goals into scalable technical execution.

This remote-first role requires deep SaaS expertise, mentorship, and strong communication to drive strategic technology choices and ensure reliability at scale for millions of users.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in a Software Platform Architect role, designing and driving the technical design of large-scale SaaS software.
• Deep understanding of modern technologies and paradigms and are excited to learn new ones (e.g. Golang, Docker, Redis, Postgres, GraphQl, Python, Kafka, Terraform, Timescale, AWS)
• Extensive experience in modern SaaS architecture & platforms, REST & other API concepts, design patterns, messaging, security, availability, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Experience decomposing monoliths and moving to distributed systems
• Product minded: You can turn complex business requirements into working software that our customers love to use.
• A positive and collaborative demeanor, combined with the ability to coach, mentor and delegate
• Superior communication skills
• Life‑long learner- you stay up to date with technology trends, spend time learning new technologies, and share your leanings with your team.

Responsibilities

• Translate business insights into actionable technical roadmaps for SailPoint’s Identity Security Platform.
• Architect systems that scale to process billions of events and millions of users.
• Provide architectural leadership across data architecture, data integration, security and cloud technologies.
• Set the standard for excellence in engineering by advocating design and coding best practices.
• Lead the implementation of new services and product offerings with world‑class engineers.
• Present and communicate technological leaps to executives and stakeholders.

Skills

Software Platform Architect experience

Golang

Docker

Redis

Postgres

GraphQL

Python

Kafka

Terraform

Timescale

AWS

Tools

SaaS architecture

Job description

This is a remote role. 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.

About you and the role:

As a Principal Software Engineer at SailPoint, you will be a key member of our engineering leadership team, driving the overall design and development of our Identity Security Platform, Atlas. You will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between business objectives and technical execution. You will need to possess a deep understanding of our business landscape, including market dynamics, customer needs, and strategic goals. Your primary responsibility will be to translate this business insight into actionable technical requirements and innovative design solutions.

You are immensely passionate about platform architecture, and delivering reliable, scalable microservices and infrastructure for SaaS products. You will interact with technical teams across SailPoint to architect systems that scale to process billions of events and support millions of users. You enjoy technical leadership, technical design and solving complex challenges as much as you enjoy getting your hands into the code.

Future thinker –

• You constantly think about the security, reliability and resiliency of our platform and how to maintain it. You believe that it’s not a matter of if we will be attacked, but when. Every decision you make is based on that premise.
• Technology choices that scale – you understand our technology landscape, the direction that technology is evolving, when something will be obsolete, and can make sound decisions or assumptions based on those factors.

Business minded –

• You understand our total addressable market and you know who our competitors are and what they are building. You understand where SailPoint is headed. You can balance immediate needs (escalations, customer satisfaction) and understand the long‑term impacts of your decisions. Urgency to scale (pace), you don’t get distracted by analysis paralysis.

Thought leader –

• Be the evangelist of our SaaS Platform architecture and influence Product Management, Engineering leaders & entire SaaS Engineering to the reference architecture.
• You keep up with technology and the direction it’s going. You have a firm grasp on how to assess new tools and make informed decisions on whether or not change is in order.
• You have high communication standards for yourself and others

Roadmap & Timeline for Success:

Within the first 30 days you will:

• Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology stack
• If applicable, come up to speed on Identity Access Management space
• Get familiar with our competitors, their product offerings and the direction of their businesses
• Get to know your peers, leaders and other engineers to understand current state, challenges and motivations
• Seek to deeply understand current state of identity security industry, our business problems or common engineering challenges, and as it relates to SailPoint propose software architecture designs to solve them
• Learn about our Top 5 Project Initiative
• Interview stakeholders to understand our business goals, product roadmap and challenges ahead of you

By 90 days:

• Responsible for the technical architecture of our SaaS Platform, providing architectural leadership across business application domains, data architecture, data integration, security and cloud technologies.
• Set the standard for excellence in engineering by advocating design and coding best practices
• Look beyond the immediate backlog to create and share a forward-thinking technical vision for your team
• You have a full grasp of our product and are developing a technology strategy
• You are prioritizing projects and defining scopes of work and developing solutions, all the while asking yourself “how quickly will my solve be outdated?”

By 6 months:

• You are regularly mentoring and coaching members of your team
• You own multiple significant projects
• You provide technical leadership to your team while also delivering high quality code on your own
• Lead significant and thoughtful critiques of others’ design documents
• Consistently achieve targets and meet deadlines; you ensure the quality of deliverables exceeds expectations
• You are flexing your lifelong learning muscles, staying abreast of emerging external technologies to understand when to introduce them to your team.
• You are defining and executing on new components Engineering Technology Strategy.
• You are leading the implementation (Arch/design/Development) of new services and product offerings with talents and world class Engineers.
• You are presenting and communicating the technological leaps to executives as well as high level stakeholders
• Translating overarching business strategies into actionable technical roadmaps will be your key responsibility, ensuring synergy between vision and execution.
• You are recognized as a subject matter expert of SailPoint Services and offerings both internally and externally and giving training sessions, webinars, or speak at conferences
• With a focus on talent development, you’ll hire, mentor, and coach new team members, fostering a culture of growth and excellence.

Requirements:

• 10 years of experience in a Software Platform Architect role, designing and driving the technical design of large-scale commercial, enterprise-class, multi-tenant distributed SaaS software in domains such as Security, CRM, ERP, etc.
• Deep understanding of modern technologies and paradigms and are excited to learn new ones (e.g. Golang, Docker, Redis, Postgres, GraphQl, Python, Kafka, Terraform, Timescale, AWS)
• Extensive experience in modern SaaS architecture & platforms, REST & other API concepts, design patterns, messaging, security, availability, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Experience decomposing monoliths and moving to distributed systems
• Product minded: You can turn complex business requirements into working software that our customers love to use.
• A positive and collaborative demeanor, combined with the ability to coach, mentor and delegate
• Superior communication skills
• Life‑long learner- you stay up to date with technology trends, spend time learning new technologies, and share your leanings with your team.

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

Benefits:

At SailPoint, our identity security innovations are powered by a global crew. We are proudly headquartered in Austin, Texas, with a beautiful campus that overlooks the scenic 4 Points Preserve. We embrace a flexible, remote-first work culture that prioritizes personal autonomy, trust, and work‑life balance. Working here is defined by “The SailPoint Way”; a highly collaborative and inclusive environment where leadership is transparent, “smart jerks” are not tolerated, and crew members have the freedom to drive real impact in security.

We provide:

Competitive Compensation

• Flexible Time Off: Trust‑based 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!

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role‑specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary, for US‑based employees, will be in this range from (min‑max, USD):
$179,100 – $301,962.00
Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee’s home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
2. Disability coverage: Short‑term and long‑term disability
3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses and children
5. Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy
8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
9. Sick leave
10. Parental support: Paid parental leave
11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

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.

Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability. Contact or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78726, to discuss reasonable accommodations. NOTE: Any unsolicited resumes sent by candidates or agencies to this email will not be considered for current openings at SailPoint.