Engineering Manager - Virtual Appliance Platform

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 across their digital workforce and helping ensure that workers have the right access to do their jobs - no more, no less.

Built on a foundation of AI and machine learning, SailPoint Identity Security 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 an Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow the software engineering team responsible for a critical virtual appliance that customers deploy within their private environments.

The appliance provides a secure, reliable connection between customer-managed systems and SailPoint Identity Security.

You will own engineering execution, collaborate with Product Management on the roadmap, and help the team deliver meaningful customer outcomes with greater speed and predictability.

In a typical day, you may coach an engineer, review an architectural proposal, refine sprint priorities, coordinate a release or incident follow-up with a peer team, and communicate roadmap progress and risks.

You will not be expected to write code routinely, but you will be technically engaged: able to read code, understand the systems your team owns, ask insightful questions, and guide sound decisions involving Linux, virtualization, containerization, and customer-deployed software.

You will continue developing the team's Scrum practices around a predictable two-week sprint cadence while preserving the flexibility to respond to urgent customer and operational needs.

You will also champion responsible use of modern AI and LLM capabilities to improve engineering effectiveness, quality, decision-making, and business outcomes.

This role is based in India. Candidates may work remotely, in a hybrid arrangement, or from SailPoint's Pune office. Substantial daily overlap with U.S. working hours is required.

About the Team:

This distributed software engineering team owns the complete lifecycle of SailPoint's customer-deployed virtual appliance - from architecture and development through distribution, installation, upgrades, patching, compatibility, vulnerability remediation, diagnostics, reliability, and incident response.

Engineers participate in an on-call rotation for customer-impacting issues.

The team works closely with Product Management and with experts across security, vulnerability management, architecture, release engineering, support, and other engineering organizations.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing and developing software engineers.

• Proven experience leading teams that build customer-installed applications, virtual appliances, connectors, gateways, or comparable software deployed in customer-managed environments.

• Experience building software that securely connects customer environments with cloud-based SaaS services.

• Strong technical understanding of Linux, virtualization, and containerization.

• Experience managing the lifecycle of customer-deployed software, including distribution, upgrades, patching, compatibility, diagnostics, vulnerability remediation, and incident response.

• Demonstrated success implementing and refining Agile/Scrum practices.

• Experience hiring, mentoring, managing performance, and supporting the career development of engineers.

• Hands-on fluency with modern AI and LLM tools.

The Tech Stack:

• Go and systems-oriented software development.

• Linux-based virtual appliances and multiple Linux distributions.

• Virtualization and container technologies.

• Modern AI and LLM tools, reusable skills, and agentic workflows.