Senior / Staff Site Reliability, Platform Engineering

Saviynt; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Saviynt, a leader in identity security, seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to keep our cloud-native SaaS platform highly available, scalable, and secure as we grow.

You will own shared infrastructure, build reusable platform components, run Kubernetes as a service, develop Go tooling, and shape multi-region, event-driven architectures with Kafka, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and observability across metrics and traces.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable shared infrastructure services for engineering teams.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise in production environments as a platform solution.
• Proficient in Go and Python for backend services and automation.
• Hands-on cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP and multi-cloud patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure services used by product and application teams.
• Create reusable, reliable, and scalable platform components to reduce complexity for other teams.
• Architect, implement, and manage Kubernetes platforms as a service for internal consumers.
• Develop internal tooling and automation using Go with a focus on reliability.
• Design and optimize cloud patterns in AWS/Azure/GCP and multi-region setups.
• Implement and evolve Event-Driven Architecture with Kafka or Pub/Sub as shared services.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, ArgoCD) as a service for multiple teams.
• Build resilient distributed systems with fault tolerance and high performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support critical infrastructure.

Skills

Kubernetes platform

Go (Golang)

Python

Distributed systems

CI/CD automation

Cloud experience

RESTful APIs

Observability/Monitoring

On-call experience

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Kafka

Google Pub/Sub

Envoy

Istio

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Datadog

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

About Saviynt

Saviynt is a leader in identity security, delivering an AI-powered platform that governs and secures access to applications, data, and business processes for global enterprises and government institutions. Built for the AI era, Saviynt helps organizations move faster—securely and compliantly.

Why This Role Matters

Saviynt’s SaaS platform runs on complex, distributed, cloud-native systems. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring these systems remain highly available, scalable, and secure as the company grows.

This is a hands-on engineering and technical leadership role. You will own reliability for major platform domains, design scalable solutions on Kubernetes and AWS, and drive automation and reliability improvements across multiple teams.

What You’ll Do

• In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the shared infrastructure services and platforms that our product and application teams will depend on
• You will focus on creating reusable, reliable, and scalable solutions that abstract away complexity, enabling other teams to focus on their core business logic and deliver features faster in a multi-cloud environment
• Design and build core platform components and shared infrastructure services that other development teams will integrate with and leverage to deploy and operate their applications
• Architect, implement, and manage highly available and scalable Kubernetes platforms as a service for internal consumers
• Develop robust, internal-facing tools and automation for infrastructure provisioning and management primarily using Go (Golang)
• Architect and optimize foundational solutions within Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.), focusing on creating reusable patterns and modules for other teams
• Design and implement shared Event-Driven Architecture components and messaging platforms using technologies like Kafka or Google Pub/Sub that product teams can easily utilize
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI and ArgoCD) as a service, providing standardized and automated deployment workflows for various development teams
• Design and build resilient Distributed Systems components that serve as building blocks for other applications, focusing on reliability, fault tolerance, and performance
• Manage and optimize our shared infrastructure across Multi-Region Cloud Environments, ensuring that platform services are globally available and performant for all consumers
• Establish and enhance centralized Observability and Monitoring platforms and tools that provide self-service insights for consuming teams
• Define and implement clear, well-documented RESTful API designs for the infrastructure services you build, ensuring ease of integration for internal clients
• Implement and manage Service Mesh (e.g., Envoy, Istio) capabilities, providing traffic management, security, and policy enforcement as a shared platform for services
• Design, implement, and optimize highly available Relational Database services or shared data platforms for broad organizational use
• Collaborate closely with product development teams to understand their infrastructure needs and pain points, providing technical guidance and support
• Participate in on-call rotations to support the critical shared infrastructure you build

What We’re Looking For

• 1+ years of experience as a Staff SRE with a strong focus on building tools and services for other engineers
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments, particularly in providing it as a platform(i.e single tenant and multi-tenant deployment architectures)
• Strong programming skills in Go (Golang) and Python, with experience building robust, maintainable backend services and automation
• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure); multi-cloud experience is a strong plus, especially in building abstractions over them
• Proven experience designing and implementing Event-Driven Architecture and message queuing systems (e.g., Kafka, RMQ, NATS) as shared services
• Solid understanding and practical experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (especially GitLab CI) and experience establishing automated delivery processes for other teams
• Demonstrable experience designing and operating Distributed Systems, with an understanding of patterns for creating reliable, shared components
• Familiarity with Multi-Region Cloud Environments and strategies for building globally distributed and highly available platform
• Proficiency in establishing and utilizing comprehensive Observability and Monitoring platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog) for shared infrastructure
• Strong experience with RESTful API design principles and building well-documented, consumable APIs
• Knowledge of Service Mesh concepts and practical experience with solutions like Istio in a platform context
• Hands-on experience with Relational Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgresSQL), ideally in managing them as a service
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A strong customer-centric mindset, treating internal development teams as your primary customers
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required

Why Join Saviynt

• Work on a large-scale, cloud-native SaaS platform
• Solve complex reliability challenges at scale
• Influence platform architecture and engineering practices
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth

Security & Compliance

This role requires adherence to Saviynt’s information security and privacy policies, including annual security training.