Engineering Manager

This is a remote role located in the United States and will require onsite orientation in Austin, TX.

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 youCreate 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 optimal synergy
• 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
• Your 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):

$136,200 - $194,500 - $252,900

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 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.

Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability. Contact applicationassistance@sailpoint.com or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78726, to discuss reasonable accommodations. NOTE: Any unsolicited resumes sent by candidates or agencies to this email will not be considered for current openings at SailPoint.

About Us

SailPoint is a leading provider of identity security for the modern enterprise. Enterprise security starts and ends with identities and their access, yet the ability to manage and secure identities today has moved well beyond human capacity. Using a foundation of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the SailPoint Identity Security Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and environmental needs of today’s cloud-oriented enterprise. Our intelligent, autonomous, and integrated solutions put identity security at the core of digital business operations, enabling even the most complex organizations across the globe to build a security foundation capable of defending against today’s most pressing threats.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

The employment policy of SailPoint is to provide equal opportunity to all persons, and it is SailPoint’s policy to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

It is SailPoint’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote qualified individuals in all job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, military and/or veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status, and we will ensure that all employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements. SailPoint does not discriminate on the basis of national origin or citizenship status as provided under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

Employees and applicants shall not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion, or discrimination because they have engaged in or may engage in any of the following activities:

• Filing a complaint;
• Assisting or participating in an investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of the affirmative action provisions of Section 503, VEVRAA, or any other Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or protected veterans;
• Opposing any act or practice made unlawful by Section 503, VEVRAA, or their implementing regulations in this part, or any other Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or protected veterans; or
• Exercising any other right protected by section 503, VEVRAA or their implementing regulations.

SailPoint will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified employee or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business.

SailPoint’s affirmative action program contains an audit and reporting system which enables us to measure the effectiveness of our program, indicate any need for remedial action, determine the degree to which our objectives have been attained, determine whether protected veterans and individuals with disabilities had had the opportunity to participate in company-sponsored activities, measure our compliance with the program’s specific obligations, and document actions taken to comply with these obligations.