Saviynt
Principal Software Engineer, Privileged Access Management
Vancouver · Principal
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$19,130 more — $179,130 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $179,130 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- We bring together Identity Governance (IGA), granular application access, cloud security, and Privileged Access Management (PAM) to secure the entire business ecosystem with a frictionless user experience.
- The world's largest brands - including federal agencies and Fortune 500 financial institutions - trust Saviynt to accelerate digital transformation, empower distributed workforces, and meet continuous compliance.
- If you're resilient and enjoy working in a dynamic environment you belong with us!
Responsibilities
- This role is on the PAM Platform team, building the next generation of PAM infrastructure that runs across multi-tenant SaaS, customer-managed deployments, and federal GovCloud environments.
- Drive technical strategy and architecture across PAM platform components, including federal-compliant deployment topologies
- Partner with Product and Engineering Management on requirements analysis, roadmap planning, and technical decision-making
- Lead end-to-end design and delivery of new services from greenfield through production hardening
- Author and maintain the engineering contracts (CLAUDE.md, prompt libraries, agent skills, code standards) that govern how AI-driven development happens on the platform
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of complex system design, implementation, and technical decision-making
- Required knowledge of FedRAMP, FIPS 140-3, and GovCloud (AWS GovCloud or Azure Government) - what they constrain, why, and how to design within them
- Working knowledge of modern cryptography in practice: TLS/mTLS, KMS-backed key hierarchies, envelope encryption, HSM/key vault integration
- Polyglot capability - you can read, reason about, and contribute across multiple languages, and you can defend language-choice decisions on technical merit
- Experience with event-driven architectures (message buses, async workflows) - you know when to reach for them and when not to
- Comfort working in a spec-driven, agent-assisted development model with mandatory verification gates
- You may also be eligible to participate in a Saviynt discretionary bonus plan, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Nice to have
- Go strongly preferred as the platform's primary language
- deep proficiency in at least one systems/services language (Go, Rust, C++, Java, or similar) is required
- Frontend literacy in TypeScript/React is a plus
- Cloud platform proficiency on AWS or Azure
- multi-cloud experience is a plus
- Workflow orchestration experience (Temporal or similar) is a plus
- schema-per-tenant or comparable isolation patterns a plus
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm
Compensation
- If required for this role, you will: Complete security & privacy literacy and awareness training during onboarding and annually thereafter Review (initially and annually thereafter), understand, and adhere to Information Security/Privacy Po
Company info
- We are a distributed, AI-first R&D organization, and we are actively rolling out an AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AiDLC) as our SDLC of record.
- We are a high-growth, Platform as a Service company focused on Identity Authority to power and protect the world at work.
- You will experience tremendous growth and learning opportunities through challenging yet rewarding work that directly impacts our customers, all within a welcoming and positive work environment.
Equal opportunity
- Saviynt is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team.
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