Principal Software Engineer, Saviynt
Endpoint Platform
$240-250k
AI-based identity security & access management platform
Be an early applicant
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 systems software engineering experience
- Strong C++, Rust, or Go programming experience
- Deep knowledge of Windows, macOS, or Linux internals
- Experience with endpoint security products, including EDR, XDR, DLP, endpoint management, and PAM/PEDM
- Experience with operating system security, process management, filesystem monitoring, ETW, eBPF, or similar platform technologies
- Strong debugging, performance tuning, and systems engineering skills
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, ChatGPT, or similar
- Understanding of AI agents, LLMs, MCP, and modern AI application architectures
- 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 leadership, design, and mentoring skills
What the job involves
- Build native endpoint agents for Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Develop the integrated privileged access client within the endpoint agent
- Implement Privileged Endpoint Device Management (PEDM) policy enforcement
- Build secure communication between Endpoint Agents and Edge Backends with resilient fail-closed behavior
- Develop local telemetry collection covering applications, processes, services, users, and endpoint posture
- Detect Shadow IT, unauthorized applications, AI agents, automation agents, MCP servers, and developer tooling running on endpoints
- Discover local resource access, including filesystem, browser data, credentials, local databases, network shares, and APIs
- Optimize agent performance, scalability, reliability, and resource utilization
- Lead architecture and mentor engineers building endpoint platform capabilities
- Leverage AI-assisted software development throughout the SDLC
- Build capabilities to discover, inventory, and govern AI agents and agentic workloads executing on enterprise endpoints
- Develop secure endpoint capabilities supporting AI-native enterprise environments
- Apply AI SDLC best practices across development, 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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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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