Software Engineer, Sailpoint
Identity governance & cloud identity management
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Identity governance & cloud identity management
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To equip every enterprise to effortlessly manage and secure access to applications and data through the lens of identity – at any speed, at any scale.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelors degree in related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 2+ years of professional software development experience
- Proven backend development experience with Golang building scalable microservices and SaaS solutions
- Frontend experience with Angular or modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks
- Strong understanding of automated testing practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, along with debugging proficiencies
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and distributed cloud data stores (e.g., DynamoDB, Aurora, Snowflake)
- Experience working with CI/CD tools and pipelines such as Jenkins or CloudBees
- Ability to participate in a scheduled 24x7 on-call support rotation (approximately 1 week in 20)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative, growth-oriented mindset
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering team, you will design, build, and run mission-critical platform services that enable applications to define policies, make real-time decisions, and react dynamically to changes across millions of identities in our Identity Graph
- In a typical day, you will write high-performance Golang code, develop robust full-stack features using Angular on the frontend, and implement resilient microservices deployed on AWS
- You will collaborate closely with distributed team members, partner with data scientists on AI-driven features, and optimize distributed cloud architectures for low-millisecond latency
- You will join one of our UK Platform Engineering teams dedicated to designing, building, and operating core services for SailPoint's Identity Security Cloud
- We are a collaborative group of backend and UI specialists transitioning to full-stack feature ownership
- We value knowledge sharing, high code quality, and regular collaboration, meeting in person once per quarter for a one- to two-day team offsite
- Roadmap for success:
- 30 days:
- Complete SailPoint engineering onboarding, configure your development environment, and obtain repository access
- Review architectural documentation for the Identity Graph and policy engine to understand domain concepts and platform standards
- Shadow teammates during sprint ceremonies, design discussions, and code reviews
- Deliver and merge your first Golang pull request with comprehensive unit tests
- 60 days:
- Build and deploy your first end-to-end microservice feature within the policy engine
- Write robust unit and integration tests adhering to platform code coverage standards
- Participate actively in peer code reviews, offering actionable feedback
- Familiarize yourself with monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and on-call runbooks
- 6 months:
- Independently deliver scalable, full-stack platform features using Golang and Angular
- Partner with the Data Science team to integrate AI-related features into policy decision workflows
- Join the primary 24x7 on-call rotation (approximately one week in 20) to support platform availability and reliability
- Identify and implement automated CI/CD pipeline improvements to accelerate release cycles
- 1 year:
- Lead technical design and implementation for high-throughput, low-latency microservices handling millions of identity access requests
- Mentor team members and champion engineering best practices across microservices architecture and cloud infrastructure
- Drive performance tuning initiatives across distributed cloud databases such as DynamoDB, Aurora, or Snowflake
- Contribute to architectural roadmaps and technical strategy for core platform initiatives
- The Tech Stack:
- Backend: Golang, Microservices
- Frontend: Angular, TypeScript
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, CI/CD (CloudBees / Jenkins)
- Databases: Amazon DynamoDB, Aurora, Snowflake
Application process
- You will be required to interview in person
Our take
SailPoint is a leader in identity management, founded in 2005 to help businesses mitigate security risks. The company went public in 2017 and was acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2022.
SailPoint’s products harness AI and machine learning to automate and streamline identity management, appointing the appropriate access to different identities operating in a business. Its solutions have evolved alongside innovations in the space, and the company remains a top choice for enterprises worldwide.
To continue keeping pace with advancements, SailPoint acquired identity solutions startup SecZetta. It also partnered with Simeio, a leading provider of Identity and Access Management services. Both these moves enabled the company to consolidate its offerings, enhancing its security capabilities and protection measures.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2014
$0.3m
EARLY VC
Nov 2010
$0.6m
GRANT
Total funding: $0.8m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability
- Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
- Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
- Financial security: 4019k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
- Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy
- Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
- Sick leave
- Parental leave: Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
- Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
Company HQ
Four Points Centre, Austin, TX
Leadership
Mark McClain
(CEO & Founder)Operating Advisor at Elsewhere Partners. Previously and SVP of Software Marketing at Sun Microsystems and a VP of Worldwide Marketing at IBM Tivoli Software.
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