Staff Software Engineer - Java

About the Role

SailPoint leads in cloud enterprise identity security, providing solutions that help organizations control digital workforce access precisely. Join an innovative engineering team working with mature, cloud-native event-driven microservices hosted on AWS. The Staff Software Engineer will work within the Platform team, delivering foundational backend services for SailPoint's SaaS identity security cloud offerings.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality, robust, maintainable Java or Golang microservices.
• Design features and provide rough effort estimates per product requirements.
• Collaborate with peers through design discussions, code reviews, and testing to ensure quality delivery.
• Write unit and end-to-end tests to maximize code coverage and reliability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of professional software development experience.
• Proficient in Java and solid experience with object-oriented programming principles.
• Thorough knowledge of modern SaaS architectures including microservices, event-driven designs, and distributed systems.
• Effective communication skills to understand requirements and present technical solutions at appropriate detail levels.
• Self-driven and motivated to advance work independently with minimal supervision.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

Preferred Expertise

• Experience working with AWS cloud services.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog to define and track service-level objectives.
• Understanding of distributed data processing frameworks such as Snowflake, Airflow, or Apache Flink.
• Knowledge of artificial intelligence concepts is a plus.
• Experience with Go programming language is advantageous.

Success Milestones

• Within 30 days: complete onboarding, understand product and technology, establish development environment, and begin initial tasks.
• By 90 days: independently contribute enhancements and fixes, collaborate with multiple stakeholders, and assist less experienced team members.
• By 6 months: lead small projects, participate in resource planning and backlog refinement, resolve complex system issues, and support critical system operations including customer interactions and system improvements.

Equal Opportunity Statement

SailPoint embraces diversity and inclusion, providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected category. Accommodations for disabilities are available upon request.