Principal Engineer - Platform Architecture

• Architect, design, and implement secure, scalable frameworks for autonomous AI agents.

• Define and lead the technical roadmap for agent lifecycle management—from discovery and provisioning to task orchestration and retirement.

• Solve real-world challenges in governance, auditing, policy enforcement, and zero-trust access control for intelligent agents.

• Ensure AI agents are secure by design, with visibility, accountability, and guardrails baked in.

• Collaborate with AI researchers, platform engineers, and product managers to bring cutting-edge agentic capabilities to production environments.

• Build foundational infrastructure and tools to support multi-agent collaboration, memory/context management, and extensibility.

• Drive adoption of AI agents across the enterprise by enabling easy integration and safe execution.

• Serve as a thought leader on best practices for agent safety, observability, performance, and ethical deployment.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years building or architecting intelligent agent systems or LLM-integrated platforms.

• Deep knowledge of autonomous agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI) and AI orchestration models.

• Experience with agent memory, planning loops, self-reflection, and execution chains.

• Proven ability to build systems that solve for access control, identity management, and policy enforcement in the context of AI agents.

• Strong understanding of real-world blockers to agent adoption: trust, cost, latency, hallucination, permissions, and oversight.

• Proficiency with cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and infrastructure design for scalability and security.

• Experience building SDKs or APIs that expose agentic capabilities to developers or downstream applications.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical teams.

• Experience with knowledge graphs, graph-based identity modeling, or AI-native security analytics.

• Familiarity with zero-trust architectures, AI governance frameworks, or secure multi-tenancy.

• Contributions to open-source agent frameworks or LLM orchestration tooling.

• Background in identity security, compliance-driven environments, or enterprise SaaS platforms.

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):

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.  

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