Senior Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 13, 2026. SailPoint scores B on the Alion truth index.
Job title: Senior Software Engineer
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.
About the role:
Want to be on a team that full of results-driven individuals who are constantly seeking to innovate? Want to make an impact? At SailPoint, our Engineering team does just that. Our engineering is where high-quality professional engineering meets individual impact. Our team creates products are built on a mature, cloud-native event-driven microservices architecture hosted in AWS.
SailPoint is seeking a Backend Software Engineer with a strong API(REST/GraphQL) development/design background with a flair for programming in java (and Go desired) with a demonstrated history of learning, passionate about building and delivering reliable, scalable, observable microservices for enterprise-grade, multi-tenant SaaS products. The position will be part of Identity Security Cloud Business Services group that develops governance features - Access Certifications, Access Request & Approvals, Password Management, Separation of Duties, Identity/Account Refresh and Provisioning to connect and centrally control access to every application. As part of this team, we are defining the API management strategy for the range of SaaS products, and bring uniformity to the API creation across all teams, adopting diverse cloud-native technologies (persistence, messaging, analytical processing - to name a few) and enabling the product to scale seamlessly while providing a performant user experience. You'll work with teams that are passionate about continuous improvement and agility in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Drive the planning, design, construction, and reviewing the construction of APIs.
- Drive the design, implementation, and deployment of efficient, maintainable, robust microservices to deliver medium-to-high complexity features.
- As a member of the API strategy team, you will collaborate with the services team and help your stakeholders follow the organization's strategy for designing, building, and maintaining APIs.
- Produce designs and rough estimates, and implement features based on product requirements.
- Collaborate with peers on designs, code reviews, and testing.
- Produce unit and end-to-end tests to improve code quality and maximize code coverage for new and existing features.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in Java -based backend development.
- Strong knowledge in developing server-side, Object-Oriented Programming and Spring Boot framework
- Experience in designing, implementing RESTful/GraphQL APIs for an API-first application architecture.
- Experience using cloud-native technologies from AWS/other cloud providers.
- Experience developing microservices in multi-tenant SaaS application.
- Experience using SQL/NoSQL, EKS, Kafka, Redis
- Experience using monitoring, alerting, visualization tools like Prometheus, Grafana
- Experience with AI development tools such as Cursor or Claude.
- Experience working with remote teams
- Great communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
Desired
- Professional experience in design/implementation of event-driven architecture.
- Experience writing software applications in Go
What success looks like in the role
Within the first 30 days you will:
- Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology, proactively meet peers and stakeholders, set up your development environment.
- Seek to deeply understand business problems or common engineering challenges and develop feature and unit test it.
By 90 days:
- Proactively implement different enhancements, defect fixes by interacting independently with different (sometimes many) stakeholders, architects and members of your team.
- Take a committed approach to contributing to different projects development alongside less experienced engineers on your team-there’s no room for ivory towers here.
- Is able to provide 12x7 on-call support during their day.
By 6 months:
- Collaborates with Product Management and Engineering Manager to estimate and develop small to medium complexity features more independently.
- Lead projects with small group of 3-4 members. Participate in resource planning, backlog refinement activity.
- Occasionally serve as an analysis expert during escalations of systems issues that have evaded the ability of less experienced engineers to solve in a timely manner.
- Share support of critical team systems by participating in calls with customers, learning the characteristics of currently running systems, and participating in improvements.
About SailPoint India and our Benefits:
Nestled in the heart of Pune, a bustling hub of technology and culture, the office exemplifies SailPoint's commitment to excellence. Surrounded by a vibrant atmosphere, the Pune office serves as a strategic center for the company, where cutting-edge solutions are crafted and implemented to address the ever-evolving challenges in identity security. With a team of highly skilled professionals, the office embodies SailPoint's values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact and Individuals.
Our Pune team works under a hybrid model enjoying the office 3 days a week (unless otherwise specified). We provide excellent office amenities, competitive salaries and strong benefits:
- Our benefits program offers medical insurance for employees and their dependents, accident insurance and term life insurance for all employees. All premiums are paid by SailPoint.
- Company sponsored health-checkups for employees and discounted rates for dependents
- Annual performance bonus
- 24 Leaves every year in addition, 10 holidays
- Flexible Work hours
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.
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