SailPoint is looking for a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead backend services, data stores, and APIs for their Identity Security Cloud Platform, focusing on solving complex technical challenges around scalability and reliability, reducing tech debt, and determining strategic investments.
Requirements
- 8+ years in a Software Engineering Management role on backend services exposing APIs
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer
- Technical experience and fluency at the architectural level, enabling easy discussions with engineers
- Various messaging systems, such as Kafka or SQS
- Experience with Microservice architecture.
- Good understanding of software development in Java
- Extensive experience architecting, designing, and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment
- Supporting and developing containerized CI/CD deployment such as Docker Containers, and Kubernetes
- Experience architecting highly distributed and available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability
Responsibilities
- lead at least 2 senior teams who are responsible for some of the most crucial aspects of our Identity Security Cloud Platform.
- This team builds backend services, data stores and APIs.
- help solve very complex technical challenges around scalability and reliability
- focus on reducing tech debt and determine where investments should be made.
- lead the core services delivery.
- proactively seek to listen and find alignment with other engineering teams and stakeholders by understanding your team's technology, building strong relationships, and insisting on high-quality solutions
- propose software architecture designs to solve them elegantly by abstracting useful common patterns.
Other
- This role is located in Austin, TX and may require occasional work in the office.
- Stakeholder management is a significant aspect of this role; you will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Architects, Quality, DevOps and Customer Facing teams.
- Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology
- Get to know your leads and understand what motivates them and where they have areas of development
- Interview stakeholders to understand our business goals, product roadmap and challenges ahead of you
- Create a project schedule of the team’s work to align with our broader roadmap to maximize impact
- Motivate, encourage and challenge your teams to find optimal synergy
- You understand the technical challenges ahead and actively participate in technical decision making
- You understand your team's decision-making process and you challenge them to find more optimal solutions
- You’re implementing fast, iterative changes
- You have regular syncs with your stakeholders
- With all the information you have gathered during your stakeholder interviews, you are thinking 2-3 years in the future to develop a plan on how we can scale the Identity Security Cloud and enhance its reliability
- You are successfully chiseling away at technical debt and making significant progress
- Your team has found synergy and are consistently delivering on their commitments by deadline
- You have struck a balance of shipping new features while resolving defects
- Attracting and motivating excellent engineers who care about great teams and great software
- You have earned the trust of your team
- Your personal goals are on track
- You are a respected partner to your stakeholders
- Your team size and skills are aligned to your roadmap and is operating efficiently
- Your team is consistently achieving real business results and incremental milestones
- Maintain a culture of continuous learning by coaching and developing your leaders and engineers along their chosen career paths
- Consistently using data to objectively measure impact and optimize engineering processes
- Consistently meeting deadlines and coordinating with technical team members in order to deliver quality results
- SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.
- Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability.
