Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Software Architect

Position: Staff Software Engineer
# Staff Software Engineer Sail Point Remote  (United Kingdom)
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This Staff Software Engineer will architect and deliver cloud services for SailPoint’s identity platform, including its Policy Engine and Agentic Fabric. The role combines full-stack development with technical leadership, performance work, architecture reviews, and mentoring on the UK Platform Engineering team.
* Permanent* Fully Remote
* 8+ years
* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience### Skills and expertise

Golang Angular Microservices Distributed  systemsAWSKubernetes Docker Terraform ### Key responsibilities
* Architect and deliver complex features across the Policy Engine and Agentic Fabric.
* Improve service latency, throughput, reliability, and operational practices through profiling and design work.
* Review architecture, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional technical initiatives.## How this job compares

Compared with 343 open staff engineering jobs on October 10, 2026.Similar open jobs:
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Remote work:
This job is remote. 47 of the 343 staff engineering jobs (14%) are remote.

AI in this role:
Medium. The role uses AI tools and works with AI systems as a regular part of the job. The primary work is building identity platform services rather than AI models. The role supports AI-related identity initiatives and SailPoint expects AI development tools and agentic workflows to be part of engineers’ daily work.## Full description

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

Must have permanent residency in the UK (I.e. British Passport, Settled Status or ILR)
About Sail Point Sail Point  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 ut 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
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