Principal Software Engineer

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 179,000 - 302,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Compensation

Flexible Time Off

Comprehensive Healthcare

Job summary

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and development of the Identity Security Platform, Atlas. You will bridge business goals with technical execution, shaping scalable microservices and infrastructure for SaaS products.

You will mentor teams, drive architectural decisions, focus on security, reliability, and performance, and collaborate with leaders across SailPoint to translate strategic objectives into actionable roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software platform architecture for large-scale SaaS systems.
• Deep understanding of modern technologies and rapid learning of new ones.
• Experience decomposing monoliths and moving to distributed systems.
• Product-minded approach with focus on customer value and outcomes.
• Strong communication and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture across SailPoint's SaaS Identity Security Platform.
• Translate business goals into actionable technical roadmaps for engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers, drive design reviews and code quality, and set engineering standards.
• Collaborate with Product Management and executives to align architecture with strategy.
• Help establish scalable patterns and practices for reliability, security, and performance.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

SaaS engineering

AI tooling familiarity

Tools

Golang

Docker

Redis

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Python

Kafka

Terraform

Timescale

AWS

Job description

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.
• You 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

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

Notes

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.