Software Engineer, Data Engineering (Austin, TX)

This position is located in Austin, TX.

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 to help build and maintain cloud-based SaaS identity analytics product.  We are looking for well-rounded backend or full stack engineers who are passionate about building and delivering reliable, scalable microservices and infrastructure for SaaS products. 

Responsibilities 

• Write code that is clear, well tested, optimized, and thoroughly documented 

• Collaborate with geographically dispersed team on feature implementation, code reviews and testing

• Learn and be a champion for industry standard best practices 

• Be proactive in understanding and meeting product and engineering requirements

• Stive to fully understand  the team’s domain-specific services and data pipeline beyond the feature work being implemented

Requirements 

• 2+ years’ experience of data engineering

• Demonstrable experience writing or refactoring code to be scalable and performant 

• Ability to work independently on well-defined tasks 

• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)

• Passion for writing simple, clean, and efficient code 

• Unwavering commitment to unit/functional/integration testing to ensure maintainable, high-quality software. 

• Ability to document and demonstrate solutions by using flowcharts, diagrams, and white-boarding 

Preferred 

• Experience with AWS 

• Experience with Snowflake

• Python/PySpark experience 

• GoLang experience

Education (preferred, not required)

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience in a professional software development position.

Compensation and benefits 

Benefits Overview

Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children

Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

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 

What success looks like in the role  

Within the first 30 days you will:   

• Complete onboarding with HR  

• Get their environment set up  

• Take on some tickets, bugs. Resolving some tech debt or bugs form backlog to start; something that doesn’t require a lot of subject matter expertise.    

• All work committed has tests  

• Complete the ISC-specific courses  

• Review the body of documentation on CIEM 

• New hire maintains availability during core business hours and effectively communicates issues ahead of time.  

60 days:   

• Taking on more tickets and bugs. Ticket resolution.  

• Performing code reviews and providing feedback on code reviews 

• Comfortable raising question to the team  

• Making sure they truly understand the requirements and the bugs  

• Participating in technical design and grooming sessions with the team 

• Shadow an on-call rotation 

By 90 days:     

• Participate in the on-call rotation  

• Presenting their work at feature demos 

• Contribute in a significant way to team documentation 

By 6 months:   

• Know how system works and be able to do cross-service changes confidently 

• Able to work independently on any task 

• Has the knowledge base expected of active CIEM team member 

• Contribute significantly to sprint goals 

• Regularly defines and upholds PR code review quality for the team 

By 1 year:  

• Trust them to be part of the interview panel for new roles  

• Participate in owning tech design document if the opportunity is available  

• Leading cross-team involvement if the opportunity is available 

• Participating in customer and professional services calls 

• Attends relevant learning opportunities and presents to the team 

Requirements or things you will learn on the job:  

• CIEM product 

• AWS EKS, Lambdas, Step Functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB 

• Broad structure and terminology of Cloud service providers including AWS, Azure, Okta, GCP