Saviynt

Principal Software Engineer, Cloud & Edge Backend

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2 months ago
Milpitas, CA, USA or Vancouver, WA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$240k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build an enterprise AI Security platform for identity and privileged access.
  • Develop scalable Go microservices for the Cloud Control Plane and distributed Edge Backends.
  • Build capabilities for policy management, AI governance, discovery orchestration, analytics, reporting, and APIs.
  • Design resilient Cloud-to-Edge-to-Endpoint policy synchronization with secure fail-closed enforcement.
  • Develop discovery services for cloud resources, infrastructure, endpoints, applications, databases, and AI agents.
  • Build access-brokering capabilities for privileged access to applications, machines, and services.
  • Design highly available, observable, and resilient distributed systems.
  • Develop capabilities to discover, govern, and secure AI agents, automation frameworks, MCP servers, and agentic applications.
  • Mentor engineers, lead architecture discussions, and drive engineering best practices.
  • Use AI-assisted development throughout the software development lifecycle.

Requirements

  • At least 1 year of principal-level backend software engineering experience with a SaaS company.
  • Expert-level Go development experience.
  • Deep experience building distributed systems and microservices.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, REST APIs, and cloud-native platforms.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, NATS, or similar distributed infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of networking, authentication, authorization, TLS, proxies, and distributed caching.
  • Enterprise security, IAM, PAM, Zero Trust, or networking product experience is highly desirable.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, or ChatGPT.
  • Understanding of LLMs, RAG, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and Model Context Protocol.
  • Familiarity with AI SDLC practices, automated testing, secure coding, CI/CD automation, observability, and responsible use of AI-generated code.
  • Strong technical leadership, architecture, mentoring, and communication skills.

Benefits

  • High-growth Platform as a Service environment focused on identity security.
  • Opportunities for growth and learning through challenging, high-impact work.
  • Welcoming and positive work environment.
  • Equal opportunity employer.
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