Senior AWS Platform Engineer
Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
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Job Summary
Why SailPoint
SailPoint is the leading AI-driven security platform providing the autonomous governance that best solves the needs for the modern enterprise. By harnessing the power of AI and machine learning SailPoint automates and streamlines the complexity of delivering the right access to the right identities and technology resources at the right time. Delivered at the scale our enterprise customers demand.
We are proud of our team and the culture we have built which has led to our employees voting us best places to work 15 years in a row.
What Youll Do:
Operating at the intersection of Product Engineering Sales and Strategic Adoption the SeniorAWSPlatform Engineer helps build and evolve SailPoint Agentic Acceleration (SAA) SailPoints internal platform for migrating enterprise customers fromIdentityIQto SailPoint Identity Security and other strategic goals. Working closely with the teams technical lead and architect you will contribute to the technical direction of a modern AI-augmented full-stack platform (Angular 20 SPA FastAPIon AWS Fargate) and spend most of your time hands-on delivering features across the front-end back-end and cloud infrastructure layers. You will partner with product and operations stakeholders to translate complex migration requirements into elegant scalable solutions that accelerate customer time-to-value atSailPointscale.
SeniorAWSPlatform Engineersat SailPoint embark on their journey by developing a deep understanding of theIdentityIQ-to-SISmigration lifecycleSailPoint Agentic Accelerations (SAA)technical architecture and the tooling ecosystem their team depends on.
Within the first two months you will ramp up on the current SAA codebase get comfortable with the teams engineering practices and tooling and begin delivering meaningful feature and infrastructure improvements.
After the first six months you will have contributed to at least one significant architectural initiative strengthened the platforms CI/CD and testing practices and become a go-to engineer for one or more core areas of the SAA platform.
By the end of your first year you will be a trusted senior engineer on the team independently owning features end to end mentoring less-experienced engineers and helping steer the platform toward increased automation reliability and developer velocity.
Responsibilities:
Contribute to the technical architecture of the SAA web application (Angular 20 SPA FastAPI AWS CDK infrastructure) and participate in significant design decisions
Mentor less-experienced front-end back-end and infrastructure engineers; conduct code reviews and help uphold engineering standards
Deliver hands-on development across the full stack as a core contributing engineer this is a builder role with most of your time spent writing and shipping code
Help execute the technical roadmap for the SAA platform in partnership with the technical lead product and operations stakeholders
Design build and maintain RESTful and streaming API services (FastAPI SSE) deployed on AWS Fargate
Build and maintain Angular 20 front-end features using the SailPoint Armada design system
Develop and maintain AWS infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK (DynamoDB S3 SQS CloudFront Cognito Bedrock Fargate API Gateway Lambda EventBridge KMS)
Develop and maintain Bedrock-backed AI agents (Lumen Builder Lantern) and contribute to the shared Python wheel library ecosystem
Write and maintain automated tests (Karma/Jasmine for frontend; pytest for backend) and help maintain CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions CodeArtifact)
Collaborate with SailPoints product migration and customer success teams to translate migration requirements into platform capabilities
Contribute to operational excellence observability structured logging (structlog) security (Cognito JWT tiered auth KMS) and cost efficiency across the AWS environment
Improve developer productivity by using and helping evaluate agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development workflows
Help troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues and support teammates on challenging problems across the SAA platform
Interactions with customers sales teams and delivery organizations are an expected part of this role based on demand from our largest and most strategic sales opportunities.
Requirements:
5 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production software; experience mentoring other engineers is a plus
Strong TypeScript and Angular development skills (v15); solid command of reactive programming with RxJS
Strong Python (3.10) and FastAPI skills; solid experience building production REST and streaming APIs
Hands-on experience with core AWS services such as Fargate/ECS DynamoDB S3 SQS CloudFront Cognito API Gateway Lambda EventBridge and KMS
Hands-on experience with AWS CDK (Python) or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform Pulumi)
Strong understanding of authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth2 JWT Cognito user pools and groups)
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
Solid understanding of asynchronous Python (asyncio aiobotocore) and server-sent events (SSE) streaming patterns
Ability to communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate effectively on architecture decisions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience with agentic coding tools such as Cursor Claude Code GitHub Copilot or OpenAI Codex
Preferred:
Experience with the SailPoint IdentityNow/ISC or IdentityIQ platform
Familiarity with Amazon Bedrock LLM agent patterns and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Python packaging and private package registry experience (AWS CodeArtifact or similar)
Experience with or similar data visualization libraries in a TypeScript context
Familiarity with document generation tooling (jsPDF html2canvas JSZip)
Experience with NoSQL data modeling for DynamoDB (single-table design GSIs)
Background in identity governance access management or security software
Experience building or maintaining internal tooling platforms for enterprise migration or onboarding workflows
Experience with project management duties (project planning resource management scope schedule and status reporting)
Experience with quality assurance duties (usability testing performance testing automated testing test plans)
Education:
Computer Science degree Engineering degree or equivalent professional experience
AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Developer) are a plus
SailPoint Certified Engineer or Solution Architect is a plus and is expected within 12 months of hire
Travel:
This position may require up to 10% travel
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-max USD):
$126200 - $212754.00Base 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.
Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability. Contact 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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