SailPoint
SeniorStaffDataEngineer
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“Senior Staff Data Engineer at SailPoint. Skills: Data Engineering, Architecture, Data Platforms, Graph Databases. Lead architecture and implementation of ETL/ELT pipelines. Lead architecture and implementation of data services”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver low-latency experiences for graph exploration; Deliver low-latency experiences for filtering; Deliver low-latency experiences for risk investigation; Improve system resilience; Accelerate delivery; Uphold architecture standards; Uphold security standards; Uphold data governance standards; Uphold code-review standards; Contribute meaningful improvements (reliability, performance, or design quality); Own a major data-layer initiative end to end; Raise design and execution quality; Deliver at least one cross-team, high-impact program with measurable product and engineering outcomes; Establish durable architecture and operating practices; Improve reliability; Improve cost; Improve delivery speed; Improve end-user graph exploration performance
Industry & Context.
risk investigation
remote role within the United States, US citizenship required, FedRAMP support responsibilities, Participate in on-call for critical systems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12+ years building production software, substantial time in data engineering at SaaS scale, 6+ years owning architecture for commercial data platforms or major data subsystems, US Citizenship, Snowflake data modeling, Snowflake query optimization, dbt, Airflow, distributed processing patterns (batch + streaming), Cassandra, graph-oriented data systems, building or operating systems that handle billions of relationships, cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP, leading high-complexity projects across team/org boundaries, improve team-level delivery quality, AI-assisted software development tools, data modeling, SQL/dbt, pipeline development, testing, documentation, BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Nice to Have
Experience running data platforms with SLOs, modern observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog), instrumenting data jobs and services, IAM/IGA, compliance, security, privacy-sensitive product domains, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, continuous delivery for data systems, AI, data lake patterns, Spark/Flink operational tuning
What You'll Do.
Lead architecture and implementation of ETL/ELT pipelines
Lead architecture and implementation of data services
Own technical strategy for core data
Align roadmap and design decisions
Act as primary technical lead
Set and enforce standards for data quality
Set and enforce standards for data governance
Set and enforce standards for data lineage
Set and enforce standards for observability
Set and enforce standards for operational readiness
Drive performance improvements
Drive cost improvements
Optimize graph-serving data models
Optimize access patterns
Partner closely with product
Partner closely with UI engineering
Provide code feedback
Provide architecture feedback
Partner with infrastructure teams
Partner with security teams
Partner with analytics teams
Participate in on-call
Lead incident follow-throughs
Use AI-assisted development practices
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Lead cross-team execution; Act as primary technical lead for cross-team initiatives; Partner closely with product and UI engineering; Partner with product, infrastructure, security, and analytics teams; Build working relationships with key partner teams; Publish and align a technical strategy with partner teams; Deliver cross-team, high-impact programs
Communication Scope
explain tradeoffs to engineers; explain tradeoffs to product leaders; explain tradeoffs to executives
Process & Methodology
planning, dependencies, execution, reliability
Full Job Description
**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. * Use AI-assis
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