Principal Software Engineer, Saviynt
AI Platform
Cloud identity security and management solutions
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Cloud identity security and management solutions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide intelligent, cloud-first identity governance & access management solutions that enable organizations to achieve Zero-Trust security.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a strong focus on Java, Spring Boot, and distributed system design
- Proven track record of building and maintaining scalable backend platforms supporting millions of users or high concurrency
- Deep understanding of the Java ecosystem, JVM internals, memory management, performance tuning, and multithreading
- Hands-on experience with data systems such as PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and LDAP
- Experience designing and supporting multi-tenant architectures, including isolation, resource control, and config management
- Strong experience in building and managing RESTful APIs, microservices, and platform-level abstractions
- Familiarity with infrastructure and deployment environments including Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS (or other cloud providers)
- Solid knowledge of observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and log management (e.g., ELK stack)
- Experience integrating authentication and identity providers (LDAP, SSO, OIDC) into Java services
- Strong command of DevOps and automation practices (CI/CD, GitOps, IaC tools like Terraform, Helm, or Ansible)
- Proven leadership in cross-team collaboration, mentoring, and influencing architectural direction
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
What the job involves
- Lead the design, development, and scalability of core Java-based backend services that power our multi-tenant platform
- Architect and optimize platform components to support high-throughput, low-latency, and mission-critical workflows
- Integrate and manage core data systems (e.g., relational DBs, Redis, Elasticsearch, LDAP) to ensure performance, availability, and fault tolerance
- Drive the modernization of backend services, refactoring legacy Java components and adopting modern patterns (e.g., reactive programming, event-driven architectures)
- Champion best practices for Java development, testing, observability, and deployment in a distributed, microservices-based environment
- Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across DevOps, Security, SRE, and Application Engineering to build robust platform capabilities
- Evaluate and implement scalable solutions for authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, and configuration management
- Mentor engineers across teams in deep Java design principles, debugging complex issues, and engineering for reliability
- Develop and maintain platform APIs, service orchestration logic, and critical workflows that support core business operations
- Identify and remediate bottlenecks in Java services, JVM performance, GC tuning, thread management, and memory footprint
- Build automation and guardrails for developer productivity and service reliability (CI/CD pipelines, code linting, config-as-code, etc.)
- Partner with architecture and leadership to drive long-term technical strategy and platform evolution
Our take
Sayvint’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.
Sayvint faces a major rival in the form of SailPoint, which was an earlier entrant in the space, and went public sooner. However, Sayvint 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.
Steph
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.
- Food, Drink & Snacks: You can’t work on an empty stomach. That’s why we frequently provide catered food and a stocked fridge & snack bar.
- Bonding Time: What’s work without a little play? We host birthday celebrations, holiday parties , and team outings to get more fun time together.
- 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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