Remote Senior Software Engineer — AI-Driven Backend

SailPoint; United States; On-site; USD 156,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Flexible vacation policy

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

SailPoint is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy scalable microservices in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment. You will write robust Java code, prototype features, and drive data transformations at scale while integrating Claude and Cursor into development workflows.

The role emphasizes backend architecture ownership, cross-team collaboration, and leadership through mentoring and technical design documents.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Java experience.
• Experience in design/implementation of event-driven architectures and performant micro-services.
• Multi-tenant SaaS product development experience - server-side in Java & Go.
• Experience in designing, implementing RESTful APIs for an API-first application architecture.
• Great communication skills.
• BS in Computer Science, or a related field.
• Advanced experience with object-oriented analysis and design skills.
• Proven experience using AI tools (Claude, Cursor) to build releasable, maintainable code.
• Strong understanding of and experience with data pipelines and data transformations at scale.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design, implementation, and deployment of efficient, maintainable, robust micro-services to deliver medium-to-high complexity features.
• Set a high bar for code/design reviews and fortify the team’s coding/quality standards.
• Collaborate with the technical teams, and product managers to implement features that meets our product vision
• Work in an agile environment, collaborate with peers on designs, technical refinements, code reviews, testing and customer issues.
• Continue to maintain the “We built it, we maintain it” SailPoint culture: Participate in the product OnCall and TechOps process.
• Mentor junior members and guide them on technical solutions.
• Managing development and release process of FedRAMP instances
• Collaborate with peers on designs, code reviews, testing and UX/interactive designs
• Develop automated tests across the full stack, complete with code-coverage metrics
• Produce designs and rough estimates, and implement features based on product requirements.
• Produce unit and end-to-end tests to improve code quality and maximize code coverage for new and existing features.

Skills

Java

Event-driven architecture

Microservices

API design

AWS

Go

Claude

Cursor

RESTful APIs

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Testing frameworks

Job description

SailPoint is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy scalable microservices in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment. You will write robust Java code, prototype features, and drive data transformations at scale while integrating Claude and Cursor into development workflows.

The role emphasizes backend architecture ownership, cross-team collaboration, and leadership through mentoring and technical design documents.