Senior Staff Performance Engineer

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

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 just the right access to do their job – no more, no less. SailPoint’s flagship product: Identity Security Cloud is the industry’s first and only comprehensive identity governance product to be truly delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Identity Security Cloud provides services for access certifications, access request approvals and automated provisioning, password management and separation of duties to connect and centrally control access to every application.

At SailPoint, we understand that a fun-loving work environment can be highly motivating and productive. When smart people work on intriguing problems and they enjoy working together, great things get accomplished. With that philosophy, we’ve assembled the best identity team in the world that is passionate about the firm's mission.

SailPoint is seeking a Senior Staff Performance Engineer with a solid understanding of backend services (Major Langs: Java & Go or Python) and a desire to learn about cloud-native technologies (AWS or GCP), and who are passionate about building and delivering reliable, scalable, observable microservices for enterprise-grade, multi-tenant SaaS products.

Responsibilities

• Understand and learn SailPoint ISC design and deployment architecture.
• Design and set up data in the Performance lab to emulate SailPoint customers' data volume and shape.
• Deep understanding of profiling and software monitoring tools.
• Develop load test scripts and create tools necessary for performance testing software and infrastructure.
• Write performance test plans, analyze, conduct tests, identify performance bottlenecks, and extract best practices from lessons learned.
• Provide tuning and performance improvement recommendations for tested software and infrastructure.
• Publish and communicate the results of performance tests, scalability assessments, and recommendations.
• Promote and educate other engineers about performance best practices.
• Mentor other team members in the performance group.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional performance testing and profiling experience.
• Experience with an object-oriented programming language and techniques.
• Experience with monitoring and tracing SaaS tooling.
• Understanding and experience with cloud-native technologies.
• Understanding of Java Frameworks.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Event Driven Architecture and messaging infrastructure (Kafka and Redis).
• Experience with Performance testing concepts and tools like Grafana K6, Prometheus, and Apache JMeter.
• Familiarity with Linux OS.
• Great communication, problem-solving, and analytic skills.

What Success Looks Like in the Role

In the first 30 days you will:

• Meet the team, understand the team’s mission and vision.
• Learn product high-level architecture.
• Learn Identity Governance Concepts.
• Gain clarity on various roles and expectations.
• Complete development environment setup.
• Read guides, documentation, perform mandatory training.
• Learn company processes, benefits.

By 2 months you should:

• Understand team goals and OKRs for the quarter and beyond.
• Understand key dependencies, meet key stakeholders.
• Be comfortable with tools, systems, and processes used on a day-to-day basis.
• Have executed test work, both supervised and unsupervised.

By 6 months, you should be able to:

• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the product and architecture.
• Exercise independence and autonomy in managing your roles and responsibilities.
• Accomplish projects on your own with limited guidance.

Company Information

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 just the right access to do their job – no more, no less. SailPoint’s flagship product: Identity Security Cloud is the industry’s first and only comprehensive identity governance product to be truly delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

At SailPoint, we understand that a fun-loving work environment can be highly motivating and productive. When smart people work on intriguing problems and they enjoy working together, great things get accomplished. With that philosophy, we’ve assembled the best identity team in the world that is passionate about the firm's mission.

Benefits and Compensation

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.