Associate Principal Software Engineer, Saviynt
Cloud & Edge Backend
$220-235k
AI-based identity security & access management platform
Open for applications
AI-based identity security & access management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$220-235k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To safeguard enterprises through intelligent, cloud-first identity governance & access management solutions.
Role
Who you are
- 1+ years at a Associate Principal level of backend software engineering experience
- Expert-level Go (Golang) development
- Deep experience building distributed systems and microservices
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, REST APIs, and cloud-native platforms
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/NATS or similar distributed infrastructure
- Strong understanding of networking, authentication, authorization, TLS, proxies, and distributed caching
- Experience building enterprise security, IAM, PAM, Zero Trust, or networking products is highly desirable
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, ChatGPT, or similar
- Understanding of modern AI application architectures, including LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, orchestration frameworks, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Familiarity with AI SDLC best practices, including AI-assisted development, automated testing, secure coding, CI/CD automation, observability, and responsible use of AI-generated code
- Strong technical leadership, architecture, mentoring, and communication skills
What the job involves
- Architect and build the next-generation AI Security platform for enterprise identity and privileged access
- Design and develop highly scalable microservices in Go (Golang) that power the Cloud Control Plane and distributed Edge Backends
- Build the Cloud Control Plane responsible for policy management, AI governance, discovery orchestration, analytics, reporting, and APIs
- Build distributed Edge Backends that operate as local Points of Presence (PoPs) for headquarters, regional hubs, branch offices, and customer data centers
- Design resilient policy synchronization from Cloud → Edge → Endpoint with secure fail-closed enforcement during connectivity failures
- Build enterprise-scale discovery services for cloud resources, on-prem infrastructure, endpoints, applications, databases, and AI agents
- Develop access-brokering capabilities that enable privileged access to applications, machines, and services through local Edge Backends
- Design highly available, observable, and resilient distributed systems using modern cloud-native technologies
- Mentor engineers, lead architecture discussions, and drive engineering best practices
- Leverage AI-assisted software development throughout the SDLC to improve productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and operational excellence
- Build platform capabilities to discover, govern, and secure AI agents, automation frameworks, MCP servers, and agentic applications
- Develop scalable services supporting AI-native enterprise workloads
- Follow AI SDLC best practices across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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