Principal Software Engineer

This is a remote role. You will be required to interview in person.

About SailPoint:

SailPoint is defining the next era of identity security. Our unified, AI-powered platform seamlessly secures both the Human Fabric of your workforce and the Agentic Fabric of AI and non-human identities, completely eliminating organizational blind spots.

Built on core principles like zero-standing privilege and contextualized risk, our platform transforms identity from a vulnerability into a strategic business advantage. Today, we are trusted by some of the largest, most complex organizations in the world to deliver intelligent, autonomous identity security at scale.

About you and the role:

As a Principal Software Engineer at SailPoint, you will be a key member of our engineering leadership team, driving the overall design and development of our Identity Security Platform, Atlas. You will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between business objectives and technical execution. You will need to possess a deep understanding of our business landscape, including market dynamics, customer needs, and strategic goals. Your primary responsibility will be to translate this business insight into actionable technical requirements and innovative design solutions.

You are immensely passionate about platform architecture, and delivering reliable, scalable microservices and infrastructure for SaaS products. You will interact with technical teams across SailPoint to architect systems that scale to process billions of events and support millions of users. You enjoy technical leadership, technical design and solving complex challenges as much as you enjoy getting your hands into the code.

Future thinker -

You constantly think about the security, reliability and resiliency of our platform and how to maintain it. You believe that it’s not a matter of if we will be attacked, but when. Every decision you make is based on that premise.

Technology choices that scale – you understand our technology landscape, the direction that technology is evolving, when something will be obsolete, and can make sound decisions or assumptions based on those factors.

Business minded -

You understand our total addressable market and you know who our competitors are and what they are building. You understand where SailPoint is headed. You can balance immediate needs (escalations, customer satisfaction) and understand the long-term impacts of your decisions. Urgency to scale (pace), you don’t get distracted by analysis paralysis.

Thought leader -

Be the evangelist of our SaaS Platform architecture and influence Product Management, Engineering leaders & entire SaaS Engineering to the reference architecture.

You keep up with technology and the direction it’s going. You have a firm grasp on how to assess new tools and make informed decisions on whether or not change is in order.

You have high communication standards for yourself and others

Roadmap & Timeline for Success:

Within the first 30 days you will:

Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology stack

If applicable, come up to speed on Identity Access Management space

Get familiar with our competitors, their product offerings and the direction of their businesses

Get to know your peers, leaders and other engineers to understand current state, challenges and motivations

Seek to deeply understand current state of identity security industry, our business problems or common engineering challenges, and as it relates to SailPoint propose software architecture designs to solve them

Learn about our Top 5 Project Initiative

Interview stakeholders to understand our business goals, product roadmap and challenges ahead of you

By 90 days:

Responsible for the technical architecture of our SaaS Platform, providing architectural leadership across business application domains, data architecture, data integration, security and cloud technologies.

Set the standard for excellence in engineering by advocating design and coding best practices

Look beyond the immediate backlog to create and share a forward-thinking technical vision for your team

You have a full grasp of our product and are developing a technology strategy

You are prioritizing projects and defining scopes of work and developing solutions, all the while asking yourself “how quickly will my solve be outdated?”

By 6 months:

You are regularly mentoring and coaching members of your team

You own multiple significant projects

You provide technical leadership to your team while also delivering high quality code on your own

Lead significant and thoughtful critiques of others’ design documents

Consistently achieve targets and meet deadlines; you ensure the quality of deliverables exceeds expectations

You are flexing your lifelong learning muscles, staying abreast of emerging external technologies to understand when to introduce them to your team.

You are defining and executing on new components Engineering Technology Strategy.

You are leading the implementation (Arch/design/Development) of new services and product offerings with talents and world class Engineers.

You are presenting and communicating the technological leaps to executives as well as high level stakeholders

Translating overarching business strategies into actionable technical roadmaps will be your key responsibility, ensuring synergy between vision and execution.

You are recognized as a subject matter expert of SailPoint Services and offerings both internally and externally and giving training sessions, webinars, or speak at conferences

With a focus on talent development, you'll hire, mentor, and coach new team members, fostering a culture of growth and excellence.

Requirements:

10+ years of experience in a Software Platform Architect role, designing and driving the technical design of large-scale commercial, enterprise-class, multi-tenant distributed SaaS software in domains such as Security, CRM, ERP, etc.

Deep understanding of modern technologies and paradigms and are excited to learn new ones (e.g. Golang, Docker, Redis, Postgres, GraphQl, Python, Kafka, Terraform, Timescale, AWS)

Extensive experience in modern SaaS architecture & platforms, REST & other API concepts, design patterns, messaging, security, availability, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

Experience decomposing monoliths and moving to distributed systems

Product minded: You can turn complex business requirements into working software that our customers love to use.

A positive and collaborative demeanor, combined with the ability to coach, mentor and delegate

Superior communication skills

Life-long learner- you stay up to date with technology trends, spend time learning new technologies, and share your leanings with your team.

AI-assisted engineering:

Our engineers are expected to use AI development tools as a core part of their daily workflow, not as a novelty. We expect you to use these tools to accelerate delivery, expand your scope, and raise the quality bar, while applying strong engineering judgment to review, validate, and own everything that ships under your name. Comfort with prompting, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop review of AI-generated code is a baseline expectation for this role.

AI related Technology:

Cursor, Claude Code

Python-based AI/ML frameworks and libraries such as scikit-learn, pandas, and numpy

Deep Learning Frameworks such as PyTorch

LLMs and Foundation Models in Bedrock, VertexAI, or similar

Benefits:

At SailPoint, our identity security innovations are powered by a global crew. We are proudly headquartered in Austin, Texas, with a beautiful campus that overlooks the scenic 4 Points Preserve. We embrace a flexible, remote-first work culture that prioritizes personal autonomy, trust, and work-life balance. Working here is defined by "The SailPoint Way"; a