Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer, Identity Product Engineering 

*This role is in Pune, India. You will be required to work in the office 2-3 days per week. 

About SailPoint:SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of enterprise 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 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 you and the role:As a Software Principal Engineer at SailPoint, you will be a key member of our engineering leadership team, driving the overall design and development of our Identity Security products. You will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between business objectives and technical execution. You will need to possess a deep understanding of our business landscape, including market dynamics, customer needs, and strategic goals. Your primary responsibility will be to translate this business insight into actionable technical requirements and innovative design solutions.You are immensely passionate about platform architecture, and delivering reliable, scalable features and infrastructure for Self-hosted and SaaS products. You will interact with technical teams across the product to architect systems that scale. You enjoy technical leadership, technical design and solving complex challenges as much as you enjoy getting your hands into the code.

Future thinker

• You constantly think about the security, reliability and resiliency of our platform and how to maintain it. You believe that it’s not a matter of if we will be attacked, but when. Every decision you make is based on that premise.
• Technology choices that scale – you understand our technology landscape, the direction that technology is evolving, when something will be obsolete, and can make sound decisions or assumptions based on those factors.

Business minded

• You understand our total addressable market, and you know who our competitors are and what they are building. You understand where SailPoint is headed. You can balance immediate needs (escalations, customer satisfaction) and understand the long-term impacts of your decisions. Urgency to scale (pace), you don’t get distracted by analysis paralysis.

Thought leader

• You keep up with technology and the direction it’s going. You have a firm grasp on how to assess new tools and make informed decisions on whether change is in order.
• You have high communication standards for yourself and others

Skills

• 15+ years professional experience in developing enterprise software, preferably in a Java/J2EE environment, and demonstrated fluency in Java
• Experience with formal architecture modeling framework such as TOGAF in design of new features.
• Passion for mentoring of more junior engineers to introduce and enforce proper thinking and consideration.
• Passion and experience with AI/ML tooling for automating feature development, UI migrations, and test automation.
• Proven experience developing/designing Java and JavaScript based UI components.
• Experience using JSF, ExtJS, AngularJS, Bootstrap, jQuery, AJAX, and other J2EE technologies
• Experience in the development and integration of REST-based web services utilizing XML and/or JSON data representations
• Experience with various operating systems (Windows Server, Linux, AIX, Solaris, etc.)
• Experience with SQL and one or more database platforms (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, etc.)
• Experience with object-relational mapping (ORM) tools, such as Hibernate is highly desirable
• Experience with one or more web application servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, etc.)
• Experience with one or more revision control systems (GitHub, Subversion, Perforce, CVS, etc.)
• Experience in the development and maintenance of unit tests using a testing framework, such as TestNG and JUnit, is highly desirable
• Proven ability to work with other software development engineers for problem reproduction and resolution
• Proven ability to successfully navigate and relate to varying levels of functional and technical personnel
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Experience with the monitoring/management/deployment of said products is highly desirable
• Experience with IT backend protocols and systems, such as LDAP and Active Directory, is highly desirable

Roadmap & Timeline for Success:

Within the first 30 days you will:

• Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology stack
• If applicable, come up to speed on Identity Access Management space
• Get familiar with our competitors, their product offerings and the direction of their businesses
• Get to know your peers, leaders and other engineers to understand current state, challenges and motivations
• Seek to deeply understand current state of identity security industry, our business problems or common engineering challenges, and as it relates to SailPoint propose software architecture designs to solve them
• Interview stakeholders to understand our business goals, product roadmap and challenges ahead of you

By 90 days:

• Responsible for enhancements to the technical architecture of our Identity Security product, providing architectural leadership across business application domains, data architecture, data integration, security and cloud technologies.
• Develop working rapport with other solution architects to understand our current SDLC and begin to scope out AI-forward/driven SDLC improvements.
• Set the standard for excellence in engineering by advocating design and coding best practices
• Look beyond the immediate backlog to create and share a forward-thinking technical vision for your team
• You have a full grasp of our product and are developing a technology strategy

By 6 months:

• You are regularly mentoring and coaching members of your team
• You own multiple significant projects including driving AI in formal engineering ways where pragmatic and able to show value. 
• You provide technical leadership to your team while also delivering high quality code on your own
• Lead significant and thoughtful critiques of others’ design documents
• Consistently achieve targets and meet deadlines; you ensure the quality of deliverables exceeds expectations
• You are flexing your lifelong learning muscles, staying abreast of emerging external technologies to understand when to introduce them to your team.
• You are defining and executing on new components Engineering Technology Strategy.
• You are leading the implementation (Arch/design/Development) of new services and product offerings with talents and world class Engineers.
• You are presenting and communicating the technological leaps to executives as well as high level stakeholders
• Translating overarching business strategies into actionable technical roadmaps will be your key responsibility, ensuring synergy between vision and execution.
• You are recognized as a subject matter expert of SailPoint Services and offerings both internally and externally and giving training sessions, webinars, or speak at conferences
• With a focus on talent development, you'll hire, mentor, and coach new team members, fostering a culture of growth and excellence.

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.  

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