Staff Golang Software Engineer

Due to FedRAMP requirements, candidates for this role will need to be a US citizen residing on US soil.

SailPoint provides third-party identity risk solutions that are easy to use, and purpose built to help organizations execute risk-based identity access and lifecycle strategies for non-employee populations. We are tackling identity security threats for customers in health care, financial services, transportation, insurance, and more through our Non-employee Risk Management product. SailPoint’s solution provides an efficient, flexible, and secure identity solution to help companies manage non-employees and their relationships within those organizations.

We are hiring Staff Software Engineers to assist in the design, development, implementation, maintenance, and operation of our SaaS applications. Ideal candidates are customer-focused creative problem solvers with a passion for clean well-organized code, expert in one or more areas of our tech stack, who use innate curiosity and drive to make a significant impact in our product.

Responsibilities:

• Write code that is clear, well tested, optimized, and thoroughly documented

• Clearly document designs, articulate design decisions and tradeoffs, and estimate complexity and required effort to bring to production

• Perform make-vs-buy analysis including review of alternative technologies to add to our stack   

• Collaborate and mentor other members of the team through pair programming and code reviews

• Maintain a high level of engagement with product management in agile meetings and processes

• Participate in benchmark and performance tuning efforts

• Be a champion for industry standard best practices

• Delivery of commitments on time that meet product and engineering requirements

• Provide high and low-level technical designs for teams to execute on

• Provide solutions and technologies that have an impact across the engineering organization

Requirements:

• 8+ years experience with Go, Angular, Ruby on Rails, React, or similar technologies

• Demonstrable experience writing or refactoring code to be scalable and performant

• Strong understanding of CI/CD deployment strategies and technologies

• Proficient with relational databases like MySQL

• Familiarity with containerization (Docker)

• Passion for writing simple, clean, and efficient code

• Unwavering commitment to unit/functional/integration testing to ensure maintainable, high-quality software.

• Experience designing and implementation of high complexity solutions and features

• Ability to document and demonstrate solutions by using flowcharts, diagrams, and white-boarding

Bonus skills:

• 8+ years experience with the Ruby on Rails framework, ReactJS, or similar technologies

• MongoDB experience

• OAuth, SAML, OIDC

• Familiarity with scrum and agile methodologies

• Experience with AWS, specifically: EC2, ECR, S3, Fargate, RDS

• Internationalization

Required education:

• BS in Computer Science/Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience

Learn more about NERM here. 

What success looks like in the role 

Within the first 30 days you will: 

• Complete onboarding with HR 

• Get their environment set up 

• Take on some tickets, bugs. Resolving some tech debt or bugs form backlog to start; something that doesn’t require a lot of subject matter expertise.  

• Take on 3 story points 

• All work committed has tests 

• Complete the NERM-specific courses 

• New hire maintains availability during core business hours and effectively communicates issues ahead of time. 

60 days:  

• Taking on more tickets and bugs. Ticket resolution. 

• Collaborating with team by giving and receiving feedback 

• Comfortable raising question to the team 

• 6 story points and velocity – (for reference, 8 or 9 story points per sprint for a fully onboarded person) 

• Making sure they truly understand the requirements and the bugs 

• Participating in technical design and grooming sessions with the team 

• Have a strong understanding of the system architecture 

By 90 days:  

• Participate in the on-call rotation 

• Taking 8-9 story points 

• Participating in technical design and grooming sessions with the team 

• Give a presentation on something they don’t like about the system or an area that has room for improvement 

By 6 months: 

• Taking 8-9 story points 

• Mentoring if the opportunity is available 

• Know how system works and be able to set up workflows 

• Able to complete tasks independently the majority of the time 

• Measure differences between commitments and actual delivery. New hire should deliver commitments 90% of the time 

• Collaborate with engineers across teams to identify dependencies and align on technical approaches 

By 1 year: 

• Trust them to be part of the interview panel for new roles 

• Contribute to technical design documents in response to product and engineering initiatives  

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary, for US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-mid-max, USD):

Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee’s home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance

2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children

5. Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

9. Sick leave

10. Parental support: Paid parental leave

11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors

12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options

13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.  

Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability.  Contact hr@sailpoint.com or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78726, to discuss reasonable accommodations.