Hybrid Senior Staff Software Engineer

at SailPoint

• Job title: Senior Staff Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $151,100 - $280,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, Angular, AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, ETL, Grafana, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Microservices, Prometheus, React, SQL, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Senior Staff Engineer developing cutting-edge technology in Identity Security team. Collaborating with international teams and leading technical efforts for high-quality software delivery in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience
• Strong experience with C#, .NET, and SQL
• Experience working at scale with cloud providers such as AWS
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of modern architectural patterns for SaaS systems (e.g., microservices, event-driven design, distributed systems)
• Strong communications skills, including the ability to understand stakeholder needs 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
• Not required, but great if you have: 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 JavaScript and modern UI frameworks (React, Angular) is a plus.
• Hands-on experience building and tracking service-level objectives (SLOs) with contemporary monitoring/observability platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)

Benefits

• Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
• Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
• Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
• Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
• Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy
• Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
• Sick leave
• Parental support: Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
• Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution