Sr. Manager, Engineering 

 

This role is located in Austin, TX and may require occasional work in the office. 
 

 
About SailPoint:  

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.  

  

About the role:  

 

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager, you will lead at least 2 senior teams who are responsible for some of the most crucial aspects of our Identity Security Cloud Platform. This team builds backend services, data stores and APIs.  

 

As a highly technical leader, you will help solve very complex technical challenges around scalability and reliability, you will focus on reducing tech debt and determine where investments should be made. You will be expected to reach productivity quickly.   

 

You will lead the core services delivery. Stakeholder management is a significant aspect of this role; you will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Architects, Quality, DevOps and Customer Facing teams. You should proactively seek to listen and find alignment with other engineering teams and stakeholders by understanding your team's technology, building strong relationships, and insisting on high-quality solutions  

 

Requirements:  

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 and scaling SaaS products, agile processes and workflows, and experience implementing them  Technical experience and fluency at the architectural level, enabling easy discussions with engineers  Various messaging systems, such as Kafka or SQS     Experience with Microservice architecture.  Good understanding of software development in Java    Extensive experience architecting, designing, and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment  Supporting and developing containerized CI/CD deployment such as Docker Containers, and Kubernetes  Experience architecting highly distributed and available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability  

Roadmap and timeline to success:  

 

Within the first 30 days you will:  

Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology  Get to know your leads and understand what motivates them and where they have areas of development  Seek to deeply understand business problems or common engineering challenges and propose software architecture designs to solve them elegantly by abstracting useful common patterns.  Interview stakeholders to understand our business goals, product roadmap and challenges ahead of you  Create a project schedule of the team’s work to align with our broader roadmap to maximize impact  

  

By 90 days:  

Motivate, encourage and challenge your teams to find optimal synergy  You understand the technical challenges ahead and actively participate in technical decision making  You understand your team's decision-making process and you challenge them to find more optimal solutions   You’re implementing fast, iterative changes   You have regular syncs with your stakeholders  With all the information you have gathered during your stakeholder interviews, you are thinking 2-3 years in the future to develop a plan on how we can scale the Identity Security Cloud and enhance its reliability   

By 6 months:  

You are successfully chiseling away at technical debt and making significant progress   Your team has found synergy and are consistently delivering on their commitments by deadline  You have struck a balance of shipping new features while resolving defects   Attracting and motivating excellent engineers who care about great teams and great software  You have earned the trust of your team   Your personal goals are on track   You are a respected partner to your stakeholders  

By 1 year:  

Your team size and skills are aligned to your roadmap and is operating efficiently  Your team is consistently achieving real business results and incremental milestones   Maintain a culture of continuous learning by coaching and developing your leaders and engineers along their chosen career paths   Consistently using data to objectively measure impact and optimize engineering processes   Consistently meeting deadlines and coordinating with technical team members in order to deliver quality results   

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 applicationassistance@sailpoint.com or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78726, to discuss reasonable accommodations.  NOTE: Any unsolicited resumes sent by candidates or agencies to this email will not be considered for current openings at SailPoint.