Staff Software Engineer

This role is based in the United Kingdom. You will be required to interview in person.

Must be a UK Citizen.

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 Staff Software Engineer at SailPoint, you will architect, build, and deliver high-performance cloud services that form the core decision-making brain of our identity platform. In this role, your day-to-day will involve designing resilient full-stack solutions using Golang and Angular, engineering synchronous and event-driven microservices, and pioneering AI-assisted and agentic development workflows. You will collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, architects, and global engineering peers to translate complex identity governance concepts into performant, elegant, and secure production systems. You will also take active ownership of technical excellence across our codebase through architecture reviews, system profiling, and developer mentorship.

About the team

You will join the UK Platform Engineering team, a collaborative, high-velocity group responsible for designing, building, and running foundational services for SailPoint. Our team currently features a strong mix of backend and frontend specialists transitioning to end-to-end full-stack development to support cutting-edge AI and identity initiatives. We value autonomy, continuous learning, and close teamwork, staying connected through day-to-day collaboration and meeting in person once per quarter for team offsites.

Roadmap for success

30 days:

• Complete SailPoint engineering onboarding, development environment setup, and security compliance training.

• Shadow team members to understand the architecture, API contracts, and deployment pipelines of the Policy Engine.

• Deliver your first bug fix or minor feature contribution to production using Golang or Angular.

60 days:

• Partner with technical leads, architects, and product managers to define technical specifications and rough estimates for upcoming roadmap items.

• Build, test, and deploy end-to-end features supporting real-time and batch policy evaluation workflows.

• Conduct thorough code reviews and collaborate with peers on unit and integration testing strategies.

6 months:

• Lead the autonomous design, implementation, and deployment of complex features across the Policy Engine and SailPoint Agentic Fabric.

• Establish debug and performance profiling benchmarks to improve service latency, throughput, and reliability.

• Participate in the 24x7 engineering on-call support rotation (approximately 1 week in 20) and drive operational improvements.

1 year:

• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Policy Engine services and distributed system architecture.

• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level software engineers on modern software design patterns, Golang, Angular, and AI-assisted tooling.

• Drive cross-functional architectural initiatives in collaboration with engineering teams worldwide as the platform scales.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in related field, or equivalent professional experience

• 8+ years of professional software development experience

• Proven expertise in backend microservice design and development, preferably using Golang

• Strong experience developing modern web frontends, preferably using Angular

• Solid foundation in automated testing and debugging, including unit, integration, and performance profiling tools

• Experience designing and maintaining scalable microservices within a distributed SaaS cloud environment

• Excellent collaboration, problem-solving, and communication skills

Preferred Skills & Tech Stack

• Tech Stack: Golang, Angular, Java, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudBees/Jenkins

• Hands-on experience with cloud databases such as Amazon DynamoDB, Aurora, or Snowflake

• Experience building data streaming and event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka or Apache Flink

• Experience or strong interest in AI-assisted software development and agentic engineering practices

• Cursor, Claude Code

• Python-based AI/ML frameworks and libraries such as scikit-learn, pandas, and numpy

• Deep Learning Frameworks such as PyTorch

• LLMs and Foundation Models in Bedrock, VertexAI, or similar

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.

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.

About Us

SailPoint (Nasdaq: SAIL) is defining the new era of adaptive identity security. In a world where non-human identities now significantly outnumber humans, our AI-powered platform unifies identity, security, and data intelligence to protect today’s enterprise from advanced identity-based threats. We deliver the identity solution that spans both the breadth of identities and the depth of context needed to drive real-time access with confidence. Built on principles like zero-standing privilege and contextualized risk, our SailPoint platform transforms identity from a point of vulnerability into a powerful security advantage. Trusted by many of the world's leading organizations, SailPoint secures the enterprise with intelligent, autonomous identity security.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

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.