Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Enterprise Platform, you will lead senior engineering teams responsible for core platform capabilities, focusing on backend services, APIs, and distributed systems that power the Atlas Platform.
Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day operating cadence of your team(s), including planning, prioritization, standups, and retrospectives, and use that cadence to stay close to the work, surface risks early, and keep delivery predictable
- Partner with Product Management to set a clear strategic direction and roadmap, and translate it into sequenced, well-scoped execution
- Engage substantively in technical decisions, fluent enough at the architectural level to discuss tradeoffs with senior engineers, challenge design decisions, and guide the team toward sound, scalable solutions
- Coach, grow, and develop engineers along their career paths, and shape the team through hiring and performance management
- Drive scalability, reliability, and technical-debt reduction, and determine where engineering investment should be made
- Manage risk, dependencies, and cross-team commitments, resolving issues proactively rather than escalating them
- Allocate resources across competing priorities and make clear, defensible tradeoff decisions under load
Skills
- 8+ years in a Software Engineering Management role on backend services exposing APIs
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer
- Deep knowledge of complex, scaling SaaS products, agile processes and workflows, and experience implementing them
- Technical fluency at the architectural level, enabling easy discussions with engineers and the ability to challenge technical decisions
- Experience with microservice architecture and distributed systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability
- Experience across a modern backend stack, such as polyglot services (Java, Go, Rust), event-driven and workflow-orchestration systems (Kafka, SQS, Temporal), and relational and NoSQL data stores (MySQL, DynamoDB)
- Extensive experience architecting, designing, and operating applications in an AWS cloud environment
- Experience supporting and developing containerized CI/CD deployment such as Docker and Kubernetes
- BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
- Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
- Flexible vacation policy
- 8 paid holidays annually
- Sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
- Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation
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