Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SailPoint Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their team building SailPoint Observability & Insights. In this role, you will design and build critical systems, set technical direction, and lead cross-team execution for core data platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and implementation of scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data services for Observability & Insights
- Own technical strategy for core data domains; align roadmap and design decisions across partner teams
- Act as primary technical lead for cross-team initiatives with clear delivery outcomes
- Set and enforce standards for data quality, governance, lineage, observability, and operational readiness
- Drive performance and cost improvements across Spark/Flink/SQL/CQL workloads and storage patterns
- Optimize graph-serving data models and access patterns so complex relationship visualizations remain responsive at extreme scale
- Partner closely with product and UI engineering to deliver low-latency experiences for graph exploration, filtering, and risk investigation
- Lead design reviews and provide high-signal code and architecture feedback
- Use AI-assisted development practices to accelerate delivery while upholding architecture, security, data governance, and code-review standards
- Partner with product, infrastructure, security, and analytics teams to define practical solutions
- Participate in on-call for critical systems and lead incident follow-throughs that improve system resilience
Skills
- 5+ years building production software, with substantial time in data engineering at SaaS scale
- 4+ years owning architecture for commercial data platforms or major data subsystems
- US Citizenship is required for this position due to FedRAMP support responsibilities
- Expert experience with Snowflake data modeling and query optimization
- Strong hands-on experience with dbt, Airflow, and distributed processing patterns (batch + streaming)
- Strong experience with Cassandra and familiarity with graph-oriented data systems
- Experience building or operating systems that handle billions of relationships with predictable latency and high reliability
- Deep understanding of cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Proven record of leading high-complexity projects across team/org boundaries
- Practical experience using AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code) in a professional engineering workflow, including data modeling, SQL/dbt, and pipeline development, testing, and documentation, with disciplined review before production use
- Proven ability to improve team-level delivery quality (planning, dependencies, execution, reliability)
- Strong communication skills: can explain tradeoffs to engineers, product leaders, and executives
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience running data platforms with SLOs and modern observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)
- Experience instrumenting data jobs and services for performance, quality, and cost visibility
- Familiarity with IAM/IGA, compliance, security, or privacy-sensitive product domains
- Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and continuous delivery for data systems
- Familiarity with data lake patterns and Spark/Flink operational tuning
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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