Senior SailPoint Software Engineer; Remote

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Remote Work Welcome. Be part of a transformative team that is shaping the way First American builds and delivers world‑class technology products that fuel the real estate industry. We are looking for the best‑of‑the‑best technology experts who will envision, design, build, and deliver innovative solutions that provide exceptional experiences and lasting value to our customers.

This person will lead the architecture, development, and optimization of our SailPoint platform. The ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, a product mindset, and takes a hands‑on approach to building high‑quality and sustainable software products. As a Senior SailPoint Software Engineer, you will lead projects as part of small, focused engineering delivery teams to build fast, clean, reliable code that drives business value for our customers.

• Code: Design, develop, test, and deploy code that supports our most complex functional areas. Architect and implement modern, world‑class services that are scalable, highly available, and fault‑tolerant.
• Leadership: Provide a clear vision for the SailPoint platform and develop a long‑term strategy to achieve its goals. Offer technical expertise in software development and make informed decisions about the technical architecture and design to deliver for the business. Champion technology and architecture‑related investments, advocating for prioritizing this work.
• Collaborate/Partner: Partner with product management to envision future features and help plan product roadmaps. Define solution architectures that align with business needs in collaboration with product management and engineering teams. Facilitate collaborative design discussions and drive design reviews.
• Operational Excellence: Implement solutions that are high‑quality, secure, and observable. Be an active member of the team, contributing to reviews of design, code, artifacts, and metrics.
• Continuous Improvement: Provide regular feedback and drive continuous improvement. Assist in improving architectural standards and best practices. Build proof‑of‑concepts to validate architectural approaches and evaluate emerging technologies.

• 8+ years in software engineering, with experience in large‑scale distributed system development, including hands‑on operational experience.
• Experience driving engineering best practices for high‑functioning software engineering teams through effective use of tools and automation.
• Passion and expertise for building large‑scale backend services and APIs using modern architectures (Macro/ Mini/ Microservices).
• Demonstrable knowledge of data structures, asynchronous architectures, and distributed algorithms.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and modern infrastructure operations.
• Ability to build robust, scalable, generic, and reusable solutions.
• Experience mentoring and training engineering teams on best development practices.
• Familiarity with deployment and observability strategies that support continuous delivery and high availability in a cloud‑native environment.
• An outcome‑oriented approach using metrics and data to understand development of productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage) to inform areas for continuous improvement.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with strong…