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Engineering Manager

SailPoint
SailPoint Salary
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 4/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/21/2025

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 Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a teamresponsible for some of the most crucial aspects of our Identity Security Cloud Platform.

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.

Stakeholder management is a significant aspect of this role; you will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Architects, Quality,DevOpsand Customer Facing teams.

You should proactivelyseek 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

Required experience & skills :

2 years experience in an engineering leadership role

5 years hands-on experience as a software engineer

Public cloud experience, preferably AWS

Deep knowledge ofcomplex and scaling SaaS products, agile processesand 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

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.

Learn about Top 5 Project Initiative

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 optimalsynergy

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) :

147,140 - $210,200 - $273,260

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 everyone to our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Salary : $147,140 - $210,200

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