Senior Staff Data Engineer

Join the team building **SailPoint Observability & Insights**, an industry-leading visualization capability for identity governance that shows every access path from identities to sensitive data and enables fast, policy-driven action from a unified view. This is a **Senior Staff** role: you will design and build critical systems, set technical direction, and lead cross-team execution.* 12+ years building production software, with substantial time in data engineering at SaaS scale.* 6+ years owning architecture for commercial data platforms or major data subsystems.* US Citizenship is required for this position due to FedRAMP support responsibilities.* Expert experience with Snowflake data modeling and query optimization.* Strong hands-on experience with dbt, Airflow, and distributed processing patterns (batch + streaming).* Strong experience with Cassandra and familiarity with graph-oriented data systems.* Experience building or operating systems that handle **billions of relationships** with predictable latency and high reliability.* Deep understanding of cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.* Proven record of leading high-complexity projects across team/org boundaries.* Proven ability to improve team-level delivery quality (planning, dependencies, execution, reliability).* Strong communication skills: can explain tradeoffs to engineers, product leaders, and executives.* BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.* Experience running data platforms with SLOs and modern observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog).* Experience instrumenting data jobs and services for performance, quality, and cost visibility.* Familiarity with IAM/IGA, compliance, security, or privacy-sensitive product domains.* Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and continuous delivery for data systems.* Familiarity with AI.* Familiarity with data lake patterns and Spark/Flink operational tuning.SailPoint is a leading provider of identity security for the modern enterprise. Enterprise security starts and ends with identities and their access, yet the ability to manage and secure identities today has moved well beyond human capacity. Using a foundation of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the SailPoint Identity Security Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and environmental needs of today’s cloud-oriented enterprise. Our intelligent, autonomous, and integrated solutions put identity security at the core of digital business operations, enabling even the most complex organizations across the globe to build a security foundation capable of defending against today’s most pressing threats.The employment policy of SailPoint is to provide equal opportunity to all persons, and it is SailPoint’s policy to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.It is SailPoint’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote qualified individuals in all job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, military and/or veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status, and we will ensure that all employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements. SailPoint does not discriminate on the basis of national origin or citizenship status as provided under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.Employees and applicants shall not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion, or discrimination because they have engaged in or may engage in any of the following activities:* Filing a complaint;* Assisting or participating in an investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of the affirmative action provisions of Section 503, VEVRAA, or any other Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or protected veterans;* Opposing any act or practice made unlawful by Section 503, VEVRAA, or their implementing regulations in this part, or any other Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or protected veterans; or* Exercising any other right protected by section 503, VEVRAA or their implementing regulations.SailPoint will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified employee or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business.SailPoint’s affirmative action program contains an audit and reporting system which enables us to measure the effectiveness of our program, indicate any need for remedial action, determine the degree to which our objectives have been attained, determine whether protected veterans and individuals with disabilities had had the opportunity to participate in company-sponsored activities, measure our compliance with the program’s specific obligations, and document actions taken to comply with these obligations. #J-18808-Ljbffr SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc.