Software Engineer

Software Engineer

About SailPoint

SailPoint is defining the next era of identity security. Our unified, AI-powered platform seamlessly secures both the Human Fabric of your workforce and the Agentic Fabric of AI and non-human identities, completely eliminating organizational blind spots.

Built on core principles like zero-standing privilege and contextualized risk, our platform transforms identity from a vulnerability into a strategic business advantage. Today, we are trusted by some of the largest, most complex organizations in the world to deliver intelligent, autonomous identity security at scale.

About the role

As a Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering team, you will design, build, and run mission-critical platform services that enable applications to define policies, make real-time decisions, and react dynamically to changes across millions of identities in our Identity Graph.

In a typical day, you will write high-performance Golang code, develop robust full-stack features using Angular on the frontend, and implement resilient microservices deployed on AWS. You will collaborate closely with distributed team members, partner with data scientists on AI-driven features, and optimize distributed cloud architectures for low-millisecond latency.

About the team

You will join one of our UK Platform Engineering teams dedicated to designing, building, and operating core services for SailPoint's Identity Security Cloud. We are a collaborative group of backend and UI specialists transitioning to full-stack feature ownership. We value knowledge sharing, high code quality, and regular collaboration, meeting in person once per quarter for a one- to two-day team offsite.

Roadmap for success

30 days:

Complete SailPoint engineering onboarding, configure your development environment, and obtain repository access. Review architectural documentation for the Identity Graph and policy engine to understand domain concepts and platform standards. Shadow teammates during sprint ceremonies, design discussions, and code reviews. Deliver and merge your first Golang pull request with comprehensive unit tests.

60 days:

Build and deploy your first end-to-end microservice feature within the policy engine. Write robust unit and integration tests adhering to platform code coverage standards. Participate actively in peer code reviews, offering actionable feedback. Familiarize yourself with monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and on-call runbooks.

6 months:

Independently deliver scalable, full-stack platform features using Golang and Angular. Partner with the Data Science team to integrate AI-related features into policy decision workflows. Join the primary 24x7 on-call rotation (approximately one week in 20) to support platform availability and reliability. Identify and implement automated CI/CD pipeline improvements to accelerate release cycles.

1 year:

Lead technical design and implementation for high-throughput, low-latency microservices handling millions of identity access requests. Mentor team members and champion engineering best practices across microservices architecture and cloud infrastructure. Drive performance tuning initiatives across distributed cloud databases such as DynamoDB, Aurora, or Snowflake. Contribute to architectural roadmaps and technical strategy for core platform initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in related field, or equivalent professional experience

• 2+ years of professional software development experience

• Proven backend development experience with Golang building scalable microservices and SaaS solutions

• Frontend experience with Angular or modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks

• Strong understanding of automated testing practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, along with debugging proficiencies

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and distributed cloud data stores (e.g., DynamoDB, Aurora, Snowflake)

• Experience working with CI/CD tools and pipelines such as Jenkins or CloudBees

• Ability to participate in a scheduled 24x7 on-call support rotation (approximately 1 week in 20)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative, growth-oriented mindset

• The Tech Stack

• Backend: Golang, Microservices

• Frontend: Angular, TypeScript

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, CI/CD (CloudBees / Jenkins)

• Databases: Amazon DynamoDB, Aurora, Snowflake

Benefits

At SailPoint, we empower businesses to take control of identity security—and we do the same for our people. Whether you're engineering solutions, advising customers, or accelerating business growth, you’ll expand your skills, collaborate with top talent, and grow with purpose. Benefits are dependent upon your country location however SailPoint provides:

• Competitive pay

• Medical, dental and vision plans

• Paid Holidays

• Career and growth opportunities

• 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.

• SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to join our team. 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.

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