Saviynt

Distinguished Software Engineer, Data Platform

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23 days ago
Milpitas, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$300k - $320k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the long-term vision, target architecture, and phased roadmap for a governed multi-tenant data platform.
  • Define standards for schema governance, data contracts, tenant isolation, and self-service data access.
  • Architect real-time data replication, streaming, integration, and eventual bidirectional data pathways.
  • Design layered ingestion, transformation, storage, serving, and unified synchronous and asynchronous access capabilities.
  • Enable operational, analytical, machine-learning, and generative-AI applications to consume the platform through standard integration paths.
  • Establish observability, lineage, data-quality, cost-visibility, quota, audit, authorization, and compliance controls.
  • Modernize adjacent search, logging, and observability infrastructure while optimizing cost at scale.
  • Run benchmark-backed build-versus-buy evaluations and present recommendations to executive and security stakeholders.
  • Set organization-wide technical direction, build consensus across teams, and mentor senior and principal engineers.

Requirements

  • 2–3 years of experience as a Distinguished Engineer in distributed systems and data engineering, with organization-wide, multi-year architecture leadership.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with distributed database engines supporting mixed transactional and analytical workloads at scale.
  • Proven experience architecting large-scale real-time data replication and streaming pipelines, including schema evolution, delivery guarantees, and multi-consumer fan-out.
  • Strong experience with multi-tenant SaaS data architecture, tenant isolation, per-tenant routing, and governed self-service access.
  • Experience modernizing large-scale data infrastructure such as search, logging, or observability systems, including cost optimization.
  • Track record of rigorous, benchmark-backed build-versus-buy evaluations and executive- and security-stakeholder communication.
  • Ability to operate across multiple cloud providers and connect platform decisions to cost and compliance outcomes.

Benefits

  • High-growth Platform as a Service environment focused on identity and access protection.
  • Opportunities for significant growth and learning through challenging, high-impact work.
  • Welcoming and positive work environment.
  • Requires adherence to information security and privacy policies and completion of annual security training.
  • Saviynt is an equal opportunity employer.

Categories

Data Engineering
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About Saviynt

1,001-5,000 employees
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