Engineering Manager

This is a hybrid role is located in Austin, Texas.

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 team responsible 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, DevOps and Customer Facing teams. 

You should 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 

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 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

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