Engineering Manager at SailPoint

United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Identity Security, Cloud ComputingIndustries

Requirements

  • 2+ years experience in an engineering leadership role
  • 5+ years hands-on experience as a software engineer
  • Public cloud experience, preferably AWS
  • 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
  • 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
  • Solid technical documentation ability
  • Strong understanding of scrum and agile methodology
  • Effective leadership and mentoring ability

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team responsible for crucial aspects of the Identity Security Cloud Platform
  • Solve complex technical challenges around scalability and reliability
  • Focus on reducing tech debt and determine where investments should be made
  • Reach productivity quickly
  • Manage stakeholders, working closely with Product Managers, Designers, Architects, Quality, DevOps and Customer Facing teams
  • 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
  • Within the first 30 days: Onboard into the new role, get familiar with product offering and technology, get to know leads and understand motivations and development areas, deeply understand business problems or engineering challenges and propose software architecture designs, learn about Top 5 Project Initiative, interview stakeholders to understand business goals, product roadmap and challenges, create a project schedule aligning with broader roadmap
  • By 90 days: Motivate, encourage and challenge teams to find optimal synergy, understand technical challenges and participate in technical decision making, understand team's decision-making process and challenge for optimal solutions, implement fast iterative changes, have regular syncs with stakeholders, develop a 2-3 year plan for scaling the Identity Security Cloud and enhancing reliability based on stakeholder interviews
  • By 6 months: Chisel away at technical debt and make significant progress, ensure team finds synergy and delivers commitments by deadline, strike balance of shipping new features while resolving defects, attract and motivate excellent engineers, earn trust of the team

Skills

AWS
Kafka
SQS
Microservices
SaaS
Agile
Scalability
Architectural Design

SailPoint

Provides identity security solutions for enterprises

About SailPoint

SailPoint provides identity security solutions that help organizations manage and protect digital identities. Its main products, including IdentityIQ, IdentityNow, and File Access Manager, assist businesses in ensuring compliance with regulations, reducing risks, and controlling access to sensitive information. These products work by giving organizations visibility into who has access to what data, allowing them to manage permissions effectively. SailPoint stands out from competitors by utilizing advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance its identity governance capabilities. The company's goal is to be a trusted partner for enterprises in navigating the complexities of identity security, ensuring that they can securely manage access to their critical information.

Austin, TexasHeadquarters
2004Year Founded
$20.7MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Cybersecurity, AI & Machine LearningIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Risks

Emerging identity management startups increase competition, potentially eroding market share.
Rapid technological changes may outpace SailPoint's innovation, risking solution obsolescence.
Integration challenges with acquisitions like SecZetta may disrupt services or misalign strategies.

Differentiation

SailPoint specializes in managing and securing digital identities for enterprises.
The company leverages AI and machine learning to enhance identity security solutions.
SailPoint's IdentityIQ provides visibility and control over user access.

Upsides

Growing demand for remote work security boosts SailPoint's remote access management features.
Rising adoption of AI-driven identity analytics aligns with SailPoint's AI capabilities.
Increased regulatory requirements drive demand for SailPoint's identity governance solutions.

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