Java Software Engineer

About Sail Point

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 into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less. Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Identity Security Cloud Platform 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.

As a Staff Software Engineer at SailPoint, you will dive into a highly technical, fast-paced role where you drive engineering excellence and architectural direction. Your days will be spent designing, building, and deploying highly scalable, reliable micro services. You will write clean, robust Java code, build advanced prototypes to gather user feedback, and manage high-throughput data transformations. Additionally, you will integrate advanced AI tools such as Claude and Cursor into your daily workflow to accelerate high-quality software delivery.

The SailPoint Engineering Organization is a results-driven environment where high-quality professional engineering meets individual impact. Our team builds and maintains products on a mature, cloud-native event-driven microservices architecture hosted in AWS. We are passionate about developer autonomy, technical innovation, and delivering state-of-the-art SaaS platform solutions.

• Produce designs and rough estimates, and implement features based on product requirements.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver high-quality software.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, ensuring the team focuses on the right problems and builds practical, right-sized solutions without adding unnecessary complexity.
• Review code and offer constructive, actionable feedback to maintain high engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across the stack.
• Lead POCs, research new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance team efficiency.
• Thrive in a dynamic environment, staying effective while juggling multiple concurrent priorities.
• Share support of critical team systems by participating in on-call rotation.

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Java experience.
• Deep Experience working with one or more from the following:
  Cloud/AWS, IAM/IGA, Compliance, Security and Privacy.
• Advanced experience with large scale databases, and related technologies.
• Expertise with messaging, queues, and events, such as Redis or Kafka.
• Deep understanding of modern architectural patterns for SaaS systems (e.g., microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems).
• Strong communications skills, including the ability to understand requirements and persuasively articulate technical solutions at the appropriate level of technical depth.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a positive, "can-do" attitude.
• Independent, highly motivated engineer who drives work forward with minimal oversight.
• Advanced experience with an object-oriented programming language and techniques.
• BS in Computer Science, or a related field.

• Java
• AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Big Data and Machine Learning technologies
• AI Tools (Claude, Cursor)
• Automated testing frameworks

• Familiarity with big data ecosystems, including Airflow-based ETL workflows, data lake architectures, or platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, or cloud-native data-lake services.
• Experience with Continuous Delivery.
• Hands-on experience building and tracking service-level objectives (SLOs) with contemporary…