Senior Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

This is a US-based remote role. You will be required to interview in person. Due to FedRAMP requirements, must be a US citizen residing in the US.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at SailPoint, you will dive into a highly technical, fast-paced role where you drive engineering excellence and architectural direction. Your days will be spent:

• Designing, building, and deploying highly scalable, reliable microservices.
• Writing clean, robust Java code.
• Building advanced prototypes to gather user feedback.
• Managing high-throughput data transformations.
• Integrating advanced AI tools such as Claude and Cursor into your daily workflow to accelerate high-quality software delivery.

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.
• Is 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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 meet 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.

Benefits

• Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability.
• Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D).
• Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account.
• Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching.
• Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy.
• Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually.
• Sick leave.
• Parental support: Paid parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors.
• Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.