Staff Software Engineer

We are looking for well-rounded backend engineer who is passionate about building and delivering reliable, scalable microservices and infrastructure for SaaS products.

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

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

Adopt an iterative, continuous improvement approach to ship and deploy product features.

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 On-Call and TechOps process

Devise monitoring capabilities to analyse application behavior and performance

Develop dashboards, alerts, and logging for IDN services to proactively monitor, catch, and mitigate potential Staging/Prod impacting issues

Leverage training plans and service leads to quickly ramp-up on ISC product and technical knowledge.

You will focus on feature development and bug support based on the product prioritization.

Help self and the local members to develop product and technical expertise to become self-sufficient over time to own and develop services.

Mentor junior members and guide them on technical solutions

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.

Engage with product management team to understand/refine product requirements

Requirements
10+ years of professional software development experience with a demonstrated record of increasing responsibilities.

Strong experience in developing server-side, object-oriented program in Java, Spring Boot, and associated frameworks

SaaS production support experience running on AWS

Experience using cloud-native technologies from AWS

Experience developing microservices in multi-tenant SaaS application.

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

Experience using SQL/NoSQL, EKS, Kafka, Redis

Experience using monitoring, alerting, visualization tools like Prometheus, Grafana

Hands-on experience with AI-powered development tools like Cursor or Claude.

Experience working with remote teams (US time zones)

Great communication skills

Preferred
Experience with Continuous Delivery

Experience instrumenting code for gathering production performance metrics

Deep expertise in building secure authentication workflows and managing MFA lifecycle transitions with providers (e.g. Okta, PingOne) is highly desirable

What success looks like in the role 

Within the first 30 days you will: 
Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology, proactively meet peers and stakeholders, set up your test and development environment. 

Go thru the product specific trainings to understand the product features

Work with the buddy to understand specific team process, code walkthrough etc. 

By 90 days: 
Get deeper understand of the specific functional area that you are part of

Seek to deeply understand business problems or common engineering challenges and propose software architecture designs to solve them elegantly by abstracting useful common patterns. 

Proactively collaborate on, discuss, debate and refine ideas, problem statements, and software designs with different (sometimes many) stakeholders, architects and members of your team. 

Take a committed approach to prototyping and co-implementing systems alongside less experienced engineers on your team—there’s no room for ivory towers here. 

By 6 months: 
Share support of critical team systems by participating in on-call rotations, learning the characteristics of currently running systems, and participating in improvements. 

Occasionally serve as a debugging and implementation expert during escalations of systems issues that have evaded the ability of less experienced engineers to solve in a timely manner. 

Collaborates with Product Management and Engineering Manager to produce a prioritized team roadmap 

Drive the work items, in terms of creating design, breakdown of tasks, guiding other team members on completing the smaller work items

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.  

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