Senior Software Engineer

Want to be on a team that full of results-driven individuals who are constantly seeking to innovate? Want to make an impact? At SailPoint, our Engineering team does just that. Our engineering is where high-quality professional engineering meets individual impact. Our team creates products are built on a mature, cloud-native event-driven microservices architecture hosted in AWS.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will act as a senior Individual Contributor (IC) and module lead, providing technical guidance and mentoring a small pod of 2-3 engineers. You will design low-to-medium complexity features, consistently deliver high-quality code, and help ensure your team stays on track. The ideal candidate has deep experience in building robust microservices with Golang, managing cloud-scale data, orchestrating workflows with Temporal, and implementing proactive SRE observability principles.

Responsibilities

Deliver efficient, maintainable, robust GO based microservices.

Produce designs and rough estimates, and implement features based on product requirements.

Collaborate with peers on designs, code reviews, and testing.

Produce unit and end-to-end tests to improve code quality and maximize code coverage for new and existing features.

Collaborate closely with engineering leadership to continuously refine and improve the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.

Requirements

7+ years of professional software development experience

Strong proficiency and hands-on experience in Golang for backend system development.

Architecture: Extensive experience with Microservices development, distributed systems, clean API design, and event-driven patterns.·

Databases & Data Stores: Direct experience working with modern high-performance cloud databases, specifically Snowflake (data warehousing) and DynamoDB (NoSQL), Cassandra.·

Reliability & Monitoring: Solid understanding of SRE principles, setting up telemetry/observability, and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

Great communication skills

BS in Computer Science, or a related field

Comprehensive experience with an object-oriented programming language and techniques

Comprehensive understanding of Java Frameworks

Preferred

Experience with AWS

Workflow Orchestration: Hands-on experience building highly resilient, stateful microservices using Temporal or similar orchestration frameworks.·

Experience with Continuous Delivery

Experience working on a Big Data/Machine Learning product

Experience instrumenting code for gathering production performance metrics

Path to success

30 days

Onboarding & Discovery Set up the local development environment and resolve any access issues.- Ship a small, low-risk bug fix or feature to production within the first two weeks. Conduct 1:1s with Engineering managers, and key stakeholders. Map out the core architecture and understand the CI/CD pipeline

30 to 60 days

Integration & Contribution Successfully deliver 1 medium-sized features or components.- Actively participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback.- Deepen understanding of the product roadmap and user pain points.- Identify one area of technical debt or process inefficiency to improve.

60 to 90 days

Ownership & Leadership

Take lead on a larger epic or complex technical feature from design to deployment.- Propose and document an architectural improvement or tooling upgrade (via an RFC/design doc).- Begin mentoring junior engineers on the team.- Join the on-call rotation and handle incidents confidently.

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary, for US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-mid-max, USD):

$112,500 - $189,626.00

Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee’s home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance

2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children

5. Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

9. Sick leave

10. Parental support: Paid parental leave

11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors

12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options

13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

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