Staff Software Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote (United Kingdom)
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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
Full description
This role is based in the United Kingdom. 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 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.