Sr. Principal Engineer, Platform

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

About SailPoint

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less. Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Identity Security Cloud Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and changing needs of today’s cloud-oriented, modern enterprise.

About the role

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you will shape the future of modern identity security. On a typical day, you will collaborate with cross-functional product managers, designers, and software, quality, and DevOps engineers to evolve the reliability, performance, and scalability of our services and infrastructure. You will spend your time designing elegant, robust solutions to complex SaaS challenges, working on a cloud-native event-driven microservices architecture built on AWS. Whether you are decomposing legacy monolithic structures into sleek services, optimization-tuning relational or NoSQL database models, or coding in technologies like Java, JavaScript, or Ruby, your efforts will directly elevate the operational health of our core platform. You will serve as a strategic technical voice, influencing the product roadmap, championing next-generation software design trends, and advocating for our technology with stakeholders and the broader community.

About the team

You will be joining the Atlas Platform team, the fundamental engineering crew building the next-generation multi-tenant SaaS foundation that powers the SailPoint Identity Security Cloud. SailPoint Atlas centralizes human, machine, and AI-driven identities onto a single control plane. The team is dedicated to engineering a unified suite of common services—including advanced AI models, extensible policy engines, flexible workflows, and rich identity data schemas—to support global-scale operations. We are a results-driven, highly collaborative group that values relentless innovation, operational excellence, and individuals who are passionate about solving multi-billion-vector risk security challenges at scale.

Roadmap for success

• 30 days: Set up your engineering workstation, complete SailPoint's foundational onboarding courses, review the Atlas platform architectural documentation, and partner with a mentor to ship your first code modification to production.

• 60 days: Take ownership of decomposing a designated monolithic function into a distinct, cloud-native microservice, collaborate with product managers to scope technical requirements for an upcoming feature, and contribute daily to code reviews.

• 6 months: Lead the design and integration of a major database scaling project (utilizing relational or NoSQL database systems), implement performance testing frameworks to reduce latency in key services by 15%, and recommend specific SaaS technologies to adopt or avoid in our next-generation architecture.

• 1 year: Architect and execute a core segment of our multi-year platform strategy, deliver two or more high-scale microservices on the AWS stack, publish a technical blog post or speak at an internal/external engineering conference representing SailPoint, and serve as the main technical reference point to elevate the overall operational reliability of our production environment.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in related field, or equivalent professional experience

• 15+ years of hands-on experience in Internet products and technologies, including 5+ years using Java

• Significant demonstrable experience designing and implementing products and services on top of the AWS stack

• Experience working in an environment involving rapid development of modern, service-based HTML5 applications

• Background in and understanding of testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and scale testing

• Experience analyzing business requirements and decomposing them into technical solutions

• Detail-oriented, hands-on, and able to balance business and client needs with technical constraints in a SaaS environment

Preferred Skills

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field

• Experience working with complex multi-tenant SaaS platforms

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 highly collaborative and inclusive environment where leadership is transparent, "smart jerks" are not tolerated, and crew members have the freedom to drive real impact in security.

• Flexible Time Off: Generous, trust-based vacation policies alongside paid company holidays to help you recharge.

• Comprehensive Healthcare: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance options, including flexible spending accounts (FSAs).

• Mental Health Support: Robust mental health resources and employee assistance programs to support emotional well-being.

• Annual performance bonus

• Retirement Savings: A competitive 401(k) retirement plan featuring a company-matching contribution.

• Restricted stock units at certain levels

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Discounted stock purchasing options that allow you to share in the company's success.

• Paid Parental Leave: Fully paid leave policies to support new parents during family transitions.

• Community Giving: Paid volunteer time off and matching charitable donations through the SailPoint Gives Back Foundation.

• Austin HQ Perks: Free snacks, beverages, catered meals, and gym access when visiting our Austin campus.

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary, for US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-max, USD):

$185,400 - $312,582.00

Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee’s home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance

2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children

5. Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

9. Sick leave

10. Parental support: Paid parental leave

11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors

12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options

13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

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.  

Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability. Contact applicationassistance@sailpoint.com or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78726, to discuss reasonable accommodations.  NOTE: Any unsolicited resumes sent by candidates or agencies to this email will not be considered for current openings at SailPoint.