Staff Software Engineer - Golang

This role is based in Pune. This location works on a hybrid model, 2-3 days in the office. You will be required to interview in person.

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 on Human Agentic Fabric team you will act as a senior technical leader architecting, designing, and building highly scalable, resilient distributed systems. In this role, your typical day involves leading significant hands-on backend software development in Java and GoLang, designing event-driven microservices capable of handling massive daily transaction volumes, and collaborating cross-functionally with Product Management and architecture teams to translate complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions. You will champion engineering excellence, set architectural vision, advocate for best practices across teams, and mentor engineers to build high-performance cloud security systems at global scale.

About the Team

You will join a high-velocity, collaborative engineering team based in Pune, India, working in close partnership with our US-based engineering teams. We are passionate about solving complex distributed systems challenges across a modern, multi-tenant SaaS platform built on cloud-native microservices hosted in AWS. Our team fosters a culture of technical rigor, continuous innovation, mutual trust, and ownership, empowering every engineer to make a lasting impact on our core product offerings.

Roadmap for Success

• 30 days: Complete SailPoint engineering onboarding, configure your development environment, and gain a thorough understanding of the IdentityNow multi-tenant microservices architecture and deployment pipelines. Shadow team members during sprint ceremonies, review architectural documentation, and deliver your first backend code contribution in Java or GoLang following SailPoint’s testing and CI/CD standards.

• 60 days: Partner with Product Management, technical leads, and engineering peers to define technical specifications and architectural designs for upcoming high-throughput service capabilities. Design, implement, and deploy end-to-end microservice enhancements, establishing robust unit and integration test coverage.

• 90 days: Independently drive the technical design and execution of complex service components across Java and GoLang codebases. Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries and event-streaming pipelines (Kafka, Redis), and lead constructive peer code reviews.

• 6 months: Define and drive forward-looking technical roadmaps for your service domain, reducing system latency and scaling services to support rapid customer growth. Participate in the engineering on-call rotation to support platform reliability, diagnose complex production escalations, and partner with services teams to review solution architecture.

• 1 year: Serve as a primary Subject Matter Expert (SME) on distributed systems design, asynchronous workflows, and microservice scalability across the organization. Establish design patterns and coding guardrails across teams, champion AI-assisted engineering practices, and actively mentor junior and mid-level engineers to elevate technical excellence across the Pune engineering hub.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in related field, or equivalent professional experience

• 8+ years of professional software development experience building enterprise-grade software products

• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing software in Java, with demonstrated experience leading engineering initiatives and setting technical direction

• Hands-on proficiency and professional experience developing scalable services in GoLang

• 2+ years of experience architecting and developing web applications and microservices in a high-scale, distributed cloud environment

• Solid hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies (such as MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, Aurora, and Hibernate or other ORM frameworks)

• Proven experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures utilizing messaging systems and queues (such as Apache Kafka and Redis)

• Strong background in automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS)

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with a proven track record of mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional alignment

AI-assisted engineering:

Our engineers are expected to use AI development tools as a core part of their daily workflow, not as a novelty. We expect you to use these tools to accelerate delivery, expand your scope, and raise the quality bar, while applying strong engineering judgment to review, validate, and own everything that ships under your name. Comfort with prompting, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop review of AI-generated code is a baseline expectation for this role.

AI related Technology:

• 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

The Tech Stack

• Languages: Java, GoLang

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

• Event Streaming & Caching: Apache Kafka, Redis

• Databases: DynamoDB, Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL

• CI/CD & Build Tools: Jenkins, CloudBees, Git, Maven, Gradle

About SailPoint India and our Benefits:

Nestled in the heart of Pune, a bustling hub of technology and culture, the office exemplifies SailPoint's commitment to excellence. Surrounded by a vibrant atmosphere, the Pune office serves as a strategic center for the company, where cutting-edge solutions are crafted and implemented to address the ever-evolving challenges in identity security. With a team of highly skilled professionals, the office embodies SailPoint's values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact and Individuals. Our Pune team works under a hybrid model enjoying the office 2-3 days a week (unless otherwise specified). We provide excellent office amenities, competitive salaries and strong benefits:

• Competitive Compensation
• Paid Leave: Competitive vacation policies alongside paid company holidays to help you recharge.
• Comprehensive Healthcare: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Career Growth Opportunities
• Plus so much more!

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.