Principal Software Engineer, Saviynt
Platform Engineering & Edge Infrastructure
$240-250k
AI-based identity security & access management platform
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AI-based identity security & access management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$240-250k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To safeguard enterprises through intelligent, cloud-first identity governance & access management solutions.
Role
Who you are
- 1+ years of Principal-level of platform engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering experience
- Deep experience operating Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms at enterprise scale
- Strong experience with Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Ansible, or similar automation technologies
- Experience with distributed networking, service meshes, proxies, DNS, load balancing, and TLS
- Strong experience in Linux systems administration and infrastructure automation
- Experience deploying highly available distributed enterprise software across multiple customer environments
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, ChatGPT, or similar
- Understanding of AI application architectures, AI agents, MCP, and AI-enabled infrastructure
- Familiarity with AI SDLC best practices, including AI-assisted development, automated testing, CI/CD automation, observability, and responsible use of AI-generated code
- Strong operational mindset with excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills
What the job involves
- Design and operate the infrastructure powering Cloud and Edge platform deployments
- Build deployment automation for distributed Edge PoPs supporting headquarters, branch offices, regional hubs, and customer data centers
- Design highly available deployment architectures supporting secure fail-closed operation and resilient policy synchronization
- Build CI/CD pipelines, release automation, upgrade orchestration, and lifecycle management for Cloud, Edge, and Endpoint components
- Develop observability platforms, including logging, metrics, tracing, health monitoring, and audit pipelines
- Automate provisioning, certificate lifecycle management, secrets management, and secure configuration distribution
- Drive platform scalability, operational excellence, reliability, disaster recovery, and security
- Apply AI-assisted engineering across infrastructure, deployment automation, and platform operations
- Build infrastructure supporting AI-native applications, AI services, and distributed agentic workloads
- Follow AI SDLC best practices for software delivery, automation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
- Evaluate emerging AI infrastructure technologies to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency
Our take
Saviynt’s Identity Governance and Administration platform helps secure access to corporate systems in the cloud such as Workday, Office 365, AWS, Salesforce, SAP and Hadoop. It was created to offer an innovative, modern solution as its founder believed that existing identity services were not optimized.
By spending its early years in stealth mode, developing its product technology and switching to a cloud based model, the company was well prepared for a quick up-scale. This has been achieved partly because of the fact that it favours targeting large companies, boasting clients like Marriott, BP, KuppingerCole and Toyota Connected.
Saviynt faces a major rival in the form of SailPoint, which was an earlier entrant in the space, and went public sooner. However, Saviyntnt is growing rapidly and has converted some notable customers from SailPoint in the process. The company has continually invested in its platform to maintain a competitive edge, earning industry recognition along the way, and has recently concentrated on securing new customers and growing its partner ecosystem.
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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2025
$700m
SERIES B
Sep 2021
$130m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $870m
Company benefits
- Competitive Pay: Money isn’t everything, but it sure helps. Base pay + bonuses = a rewarding experience.
- Great Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, & retirement programs. We’ve got you covered from head to toe.
- Flexible Time Off: Our holidays and flexible vacation policies ensure your next vacation is never out of reach.
- Employee Recognition: Your hard work never goes unnoticed. We celebrate and recognize when our people go above and beyond.
Company HQ
El Segundo, CA
Leadership
Sachin Nayyar
(CEO)Sachin worked as CEO of Vaau for 3 years before joining Sun Microsystems as a Chief Identity Strategist. They were also CEO of Securonix for 13 years.
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