Senior Staff Software Engineer

About the team
The SailPoint Engineering Organization is a results-driven environment where high-quality professional engineering meets individual impact. Our team builds and maintains products on a mature, cloud-native event-driven microservices architecture hosted in AWS. We are passionate about developer autonomy, technical innovation, and delivering state-of-the-art SaaS platform solutions.

Roadmap for success

Day 30 (Onboarding & Integration): Successfully merge your first code to production. Map out the technical architecture of your primary domain and establish relationships with key engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Day 60 (Ownership & AI Impact): Take full end-to-end ownership of a critical backend feature design. Author your first major architectural design document and implement an AI-assisted development workflow for your immediate team.

Day 90 (Delivery & Leadership): Successfully deploy your first major scalable system to production, meeting all observability and reliability metrics. Establish active mentorship with at least two mid/senior engineers and present a roadmap for technical simplification to leadership.

By 1 Year: Demonstrate significant participation and contributions to cross-team initiatives. Drive green field initiatives from the ground up while participating and leading virtual teams and managing dependencies. Participate in technical interview panels for new engineering candidates.

Responsibilities

Drive the design, implementation, and deployment of efficient, maintainable, robust micro-services to deliver medium-to-high complexity features.

Set a high bar for code/design reviews and fortify the team’s coding/quality standards.

Collaborate with the technical teams, and product managers to implement features that meets our product vision

Work in an agile environment, collaborate with peers on designs, technical refinements, code reviews, testing and customer issues.

Continue to maintain the “We built it, we maintain it” SailPoint culture: Participate in the product OnCall and TechOps process.

Mentor junior members and guide them on technical solutions.

Managing development and release process of FedRAMP instances

Collaborate with peers on designs, code reviews, testing and UX/interactive designs

Develop automated tests across the full stack, complete with code-coverage metrics

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

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

Requirements

8+ years of professional software development experience

Strong Java experience

Experience in design/implementation of event-driven architectures and performant micro-services

Multi-tenant SaaS product development experience - server-side in Java & Go

Experience in designing, implementing RESTful APIs for an API-first application architecture

Great communication skills

BS in Computer Science, or a related field

Advanced experience with object-oriented analysis and design skills

Proven experience using AI tools (Claude, Cursor) to build releasable, maintainable code

Strong understanding of and experience with data pipelines and data transformations at scale

The Tech Stack

Java

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Big Data and Machine Learning technologies

AI Tools (Claude, Cursor)

Automated testing frameworks

Preferred Skills

Experience with AWS

Experience with Continuous Delivery

Experience working on a Big Data/Machine Learning product

Experience instrumenting code for gathering production performance metrics

Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in large-scale software development.

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-max, USD):

$155,800 - $262,550.00

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

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.

Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability. Contact applicationassistance@sailpoint.com or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78726, to discuss reasonable accommodations. NOTE: Any unsolicited resumes sent by candidates or agencies to this email will not be considered for current openings at SailPoint.