Senior Software Engineer
Canaan Partners
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SailPoint is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement low-to-medium complexity features in Go within a FedRAMP-regulated, cloud-native architecture. You will collaborate on clean API designs, optimize data structures across Snowflake, DynamoDB, and Cassandra, and deploy secure cloud resources while applying SRE principles.
You will mentor a small pod of engineers, participate in code reviews, and help refine our SDLC processes to meet strict security and reliability standards.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or equivalent professional experience.
- US Citizenship (Required for FedRAMP compliance).
- 7+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong proficiency and hands-on experience in Golang for backend system development.
- Architecture: Microservices development, distributed systems, clean API design, and event-driven patterns.
- Databases & Data Stores: Snowflake, DynamoDB, Cassandra.
- Reliability & Monitoring: SRE principles, telemetry/observability, and SLOs.
- Great communication skills.
- Object-oriented programming techniques.
- Java Frameworks experience.
Responsibilities
- Design low-to-medium complexity features in Go for a FedRAMP-regulated environment.
- Collaborate on clean API designs and optimize data structures across Snowflake, DynamoDB, and Cassandra.
- Deploy secure cloud resources and apply SRE practices to ensure reliability and observability.
- Mentor a small pod of engineers and participate in code reviews and SDLC improvements.
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Job description
This is a US-based remote role and you must be a US Citizen. You will be required to interview in person.
SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less. Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Identity Security Cloud Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and changing needs of today’s cloud-oriented, modern enterprise.
Want to be on a team that is full of results-driven individuals who are constantly seeking to innovate? Want to make an impact? At SailPoint, our Engineering team does just that. Our engineering is where high-quality professional engineering meets individual impact. Our team creates products that are built on a mature, cloud-native event-driven microservices architecture hosted in AWS, which is now scaling to meet secure federal requirements in our FedRAMP environment.
As a Senior Software Engineer, your day-to-day will involve designing low-to-medium complexity features, writing high-performance Golang services, and deploying secure cloud resources. You will spend your day collaborating on clean API designs, optimizing data structures across Snowflake, DynamoDB, and Cassandra, and leveraging Temporal for stateful workflow orchestration. Because this is a FedRAMP-regulated environment, you will play a critical role in ensuring our microservices adhere to strict security, compliance, and observability standards, while utilizing SRE principles to keep our systems resilient and highly available.
You will join a dynamic, collaborative pod of software engineers focused on building the next generation of our Identity Security Cloud Platform. In this role, you will act as a senior Individual Contributor (IC) and module lead, providing technical guidance and mentoring a small pod of 2-3 engineers. The team values innovation, continuous delivery, and operational excellence. We work closely together to refine our Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, conduct rigorous code reviews, and maintain high standards of telemetry and monitoring to meet our strict Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
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Set up the local development environment and resolve any necessary system and repository access issues.
Conduct initial 1:1 meetings with engineering managers, teammates, and key cross-functional stakeholders.
Map out the core microservices architecture and gain a deep understanding of our AWS CI/CD pipelines and FedRAMP compliance baselines.
Ship a small, low-risk bug fix or minor feature to the production environment within the first two weeks of onboarding.
Deliver at least one medium-complexity feature or component in Golang, adhering to clean API design principles.
Actively participate in team code reviews, providing constructive and detailed technical feedback to peers.
Deepen your understanding of the product roadmap, customer pain points, and FedRAMP security controls.
Identify at least one area of technical debt, process inefficiency, or SRE monitoring gap to improve.
Take the lead on a large technical epic or complex system feature from initial architectural design through deployment to production.
Propose and document a major architectural improvement or tooling upgrade by authoring a Request for Comments (RFC) or technical design document.
Mentor junior engineers within your pod, providing technical guidance and helping them grow their engineering skills.
Join the team's on-call rotation and confidently triage, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents using SRE telemetry and observability tools.
Own the technical lifecycle of multiple core microservices, ensuring their long-term scalability, performance, and security compliance.
Guide the engineering pod to successfully execute on key product deliverables, ensuring timelines are met and code quality remains high.
Drive significant improvements to our continuous delivery pipeline, optimizing deploy times and reliability for our FedRAMP and commercial environments.
Partner with engineering leadership to continuously refine and elevate our SDLC processes and architectural standards.
Bachelors degree in related field, or equivalent professional experience
US Citizenship (Required for FedRAMP compliance)
7+ years of professional software development experience
Strong proficiency and hands-on experience in Golang for backend system development
Architecture: Extensive experience with Microservices development, distributed systems, clean API design, and event-driven patterns
Databases & Data Stores: Direct experience working with modern high-performance cloud databases, specifically Snowflake (data warehousing), DynamoDB (NoSQL), and Cassandra
Reliability & Monitoring: Solid understanding of SRE principles, setting up telemetry/observability, and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
Great communication skills
Comprehensive experience with an object-oriented programming language and techniques
Comprehensive understanding of Java Frameworks
Experience with AWS
Workflow Orchestration: Hands-on experience building highly resilient, stateful microservices using Temporal or similar orchestration frameworks
Experience with Continuous Delivery
Experience working on a Big Data/Machine Learning product
Experience instrumenting code for gathering production performance and security metrics
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.
Flexible Time Off: Generous, trust-based vacation policies alongside paid company holidays to help you recharge.
Comprehensive Healthcare: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance options, including flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
Mental Health Support: Robust mental health resources and employee assistance programs to support emotional well-being.
Annual performance bonus
Retirement Savings: A competitive 401(k) retirement plan featuring a company-matching contribution.
Restricted stock units at certain levels
Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Discounted stock purchasing options that allow you to share in the company's success.
Paid Parental Leave: Fully paid leave policies to support new parents during family transitions.
Community Giving: Paid volunteer time off and matching charitable donations through the SailPoint Gives Back Foundation.
Austin HQ Perks: Free snacks, beverages, catered meals, and gym access when visiting our Austin campus.
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-mid-max, USD):
$112,500 - $189,626.00
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 applicationassistance@sailpoint.com 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.
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