Principal Engineer - Platform Architecture

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

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

• Solve real-world challenges ingovernance auditing policy enforcement andzero-trust access controlfor intelligent agents.

• Ensure AI agents aresecure 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 supportmulti-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 foragent 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 ofautonomous agent frameworks(e.g. LangChain AutoGen CrewAI) and AI orchestration models.

• Experience withagent memory planning loops self-reflection and execution chains.

• Proven ability to build systems that solve foraccess control identity management and policy enforcementin the context of AI agents.

• Strong understanding ofreal-world blockersto 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 withknowledge graphs graph-based identity modeling or AI-native security analytics.

• Familiarity withzero-trust architecturesAI governance frameworks orsecure 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 SailPoints 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 employees 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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