This is a remote role within the United States. Due to FedRAMP requirements, this role requires US citizenship.

About the role:

Join the team building SailPoint Observability & Insights, an industry-leading visualization capability for identity governance that shows every access path from identities to sensitive data and enables fast, policy-driven action from a unified view. This is a Senior Staff role: you will design and build critical systems, set technical direction, and lead cross-team execution.

You will own core data platform capabilities behind Observability & Insights (powered by SailPoint’s internal Identity Graph), spanning batch and streaming pipelines, warehousing, and graph-oriented storage. You will help power a graph with billions of nodes and edges, where backend architecture directly determines UX speed, clarity, and trust.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and implementation of scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data services for Observability & Insights.

• Own technical strategy for core data domains; align roadmap and design decisions across partner teams.

• Act as primary technical lead for cross-team initiatives with clear delivery outcomes.

• Set and enforce standards for data quality, governance, lineage, observability, and operational readiness.

• Drive performance and cost improvements across Spark/Flink/SQL/CQL workloads and storage patterns.

• Optimize graph-serving data models and access patterns so complex relationship visualizations remain responsive at extreme scale.

• Partner closely with product and UI engineering to deliver low-latency experiences for graph exploration, filtering, and risk investigation.

• Lead design reviews and provide high-signal code and architecture feedback.

• Partner with product, infrastructure, security, and analytics teams to define practical solutions.

• Participate in on-call for critical systems and lead incident follow-throughs that improve system resilience.

Requirements

• 12+ years building production software, with substantial time in data engineering at SaaS scale.

• 6+ years owning architecture for commercial data platforms or major data subsystems.

• US Citizenship is required for this position due to FedRAMP support responsibilities.

• Expert experience with Snowflake data modeling and query optimization.

• Strong hands-on experience with dbt, Airflow, and distributed processing patterns (batch + streaming).

• Strong experience with Cassandra and familiarity with graph-oriented data systems.

• Experience building or operating systems that handle billions of relationships with predictable latency and high reliability.

• Deep understanding of cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Proven record of leading high-complexity projects across team/org boundaries.

• Proven ability to improve team-level delivery quality (planning, dependencies, execution, reliability).

• Strong communication skills: can explain tradeoffs to engineers, product leaders, and executives.

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred

• Experience running data platforms with SLOs and modern observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog).

• Experience instrumenting data jobs and services for performance, quality, and cost visibility.

• Familiarity with IAM/IGA, compliance, security, or privacy-sensitive product domains.

• Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and continuous delivery for data systems.

• Familiarity with AI.

• Familiarity with data lake patterns and Spark/Flink operational tuning.