Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £53,000 - 93,000 per year

Requirements:

• We require candidates to be UK citizens and available to interview in person.
• We require a bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
• We require 5+ years of professional software development experience building production-grade distributed systems.
• We require strong proficiency in backend microservices development, preferably with Golang.
• We require proven experience in modern frontend development, preferably with Angular.
• We require practical experience with, or strong familiarity with, AI-assisted and agentic software development tools and workflows.
• We require a solid background in testing and debugging complex systems, including unit and integration testing and performance profiling.
• We require experience designing and operating microservices in SaaS or cloud environments.
• We value excellent collaboration and communication skills and an articulate, approachable approach to teamwork.
• We expect engineers to use AI development tools as part of their daily workflow, with comfort in prompting, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop review of AI-generated code.
• Our technology stack includes Golang, TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins/CloudBees, and Git. AI-related technologies include Cursor, Claude Code, Python-based libraries such as scikit-learn, pandas, and numpy, PyTorch, and LLMs and foundation models in Bedrock, Vertex AI, or similar.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deploy robust full-stack microservices for the Policy Engine, supporting real-time and batch decision evaluations.
• Rapidly prototype solutions, refine product requirements with cross-functional partners, and build performant, maintainable software using technologies such as Golang and Angular.
• Complete onboarding, learn the Policy Engine architecture and deployment pipelines, and contribute bug fixes and features through the teams code review process.
• Design and implement end-to-end microservice features in collaboration with technical leads and product partners.
• Develop unit and integration tests to validate service resilience and external integrations.
• Participate in engineering support and the 24x7 on-call rotation, approximately one week in 20.
• Architect, build, and deliver complex, high-throughput Policy Engine features from concept through production rollout.
• Lead design reviews, mentor teammates on best practices, and introduce agentic coding workflows to support team delivery.
• Develop subject-matter expertise in the Policy Engine and Agentic Fabric decision systems, contribute to technical roadmaps, and evolve key microservice architectures.
• Partner with global architecture and engineering leadership to set coding standards and lead major technical initiatives.
• Use AI development tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality, while reviewing, validating, and taking ownership of all shipped work.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Angular
• Architect
• Backend
• Claude Code
• Cloud
• Cursor
• Docker
• Fabric
• Frontend
• Git
• Golang
• Support
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• PyTorch
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• microservices
• numpy
• pandas

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We are SailPoint, a provider of identity security solutions trusted by large, complex organizations. Our unified, AI-powered platform secures workforce and AI and non-human identities, using principles such as zero-standing privilege and contextualized risk. This is a full-time, UK-based remote Senior Software Engineer role on our collaborative UK Platform Engineering team, which builds and operates core platform services and resilient distributed systems. The team works remotely and gathers in person once per quarter for a one- to two-day offsite. We offer competitive pay, medical, dental, and vision plans, paid holidays, and career and growth opportunities; benefits depend on the employees country location. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome qualified candidates.

last updated 40 week of 2026