Sailpoint
Senior Data Engineer
United States · Senior
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About the role
- It powers Identity Security Cloud, the Identity Graph, and analytics and ML products across SailPoint, so product teams can ingest, store, process, and serve identity data at SaaS scale.
- This is a strong individual contributor role.
- batch and streaming pipelines, warehouse and lakehouse models, and the data services product teams depend on.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data services on our managed lake-house.
- Own meaningful pipelines and datasets end to end - from requirements through production support.
- Build robust data models for the warehouse and lakehouse that support product features, analytics, and ML.
- Contribute to data architecture and design discussions
- write and review design documents.
- Implement data quality checks, governance, lineage, and observability standards for the work you own.
- Partner with product, infrastructure, security, and analytics teams, and with data scientists and software engineers, to ship practical solutions.
Requirements
- 2+ years owning meaningful pipelines, datasets, or data services in production.
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL, data modeling, and query optimization - ideally on Snowflake or a comparable cloud warehouse.
- Strong hands-on experience with dbt and Airflow, or close equivalents.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language: Python, Java, or Scala.
- Working experience with distributed processing (batch and streaming) and production experience with at least one of Kafka, Flink, Spark, or Cassandra.
- Comfort working with cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance best practices.
- Experience with SLOs and modern observability for data systems (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog) and with instrumenting data jobs for performance, quality, and cost visibility.
- Required
- 5+ years of professional experience building production software, with substantial time in data engineering.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted software development tools (for example GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code) in a professional engineering workflow - including data modeling, SQL/dbt, and pipeline development, testing, and documentation - with disciplined review before production use.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality work independently and on time, including in unfamiliar areas of the codebase.
- Strong communication skills: you can write a clear design doc and explain tradeoffs to engineering and product partners.
- Preferred
Nice to have
- Exposure to graph-oriented data systems and large relationship datasets
- interest in billion-scale problems is a plus.
Skills
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Exposure to graph-oriented data systems and large relationship datasets; interest in billion-scale problems is a plus.
- Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and continuous delivery for data systems.
- Operational tuning experience with Spark or Flink.
- Experience with search and information retrieval systems such as OpenSearch.
- Exposure to machine learning workflows and MLOps practices.
- Familiarity with IAM/IGA, compliance, security, or other privacy-sensitive product domains.
- Success looks like
Compensation
- We estimate the base salary, for
- US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-max, USD):
- Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
Benefits
- 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.
- Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
- Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- Flexible vacation policy
- Parental support: Paid parental leave
- Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team.
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