Staff Software Engineer

Salary: £53,000 - 93,000 per year

Requirements:

• Must be a UK citizen and available to interview in person
• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Proven expertise in backend microservice design and development, preferably using Golang
• Strong experience developing modern web frontends, preferably using Angular
• Solid foundation in automated testing and debugging, including unit, integration, and performance-profiling tools
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable microservices in a distributed SaaS cloud environment
• Excellent collaboration, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Preferred technologies: Golang, Angular, Java, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CloudBees/Jenkins
• Hands-on experience with cloud databases such as Amazon DynamoDB, Aurora, or Snowflake is preferred
• Experience building data-streaming and event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka or Apache Flink is preferred
• Experience or strong interest in AI-assisted software development and agentic engineering practices
• Comfort with prompting, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop review of AI-generated code
• Familiarity with AI development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code, Python-based AI/ML libraries such as scikit-learn, pandas, and NumPy, deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch, and LLMs and foundation models in Bedrock, Vertex AI, or similar is relevant to the role

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and deliver high-performance cloud services that support the core decision-making functions of our identity platform
• Design resilient full-stack solutions using Golang and Angular
• Engineer synchronous and event-driven microservices
• Use AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, applying engineering judgment to review, validate, and own shipped work
• Work with product managers, UX designers, architects, and global engineering colleagues to turn identity governance concepts into secure, performant production systems
• Contribute to technical excellence through architecture reviews, system profiling, and developer mentorship
• Complete engineering onboarding, environment setup, and security compliance training, and learn the Policy Engine architecture, API contracts, and deployment pipelines
• Deliver production bug fixes and feature contributions, then build, test, and deploy end-to-end features for real-time and batch policy evaluation workflows
• Define technical specifications and estimates with technical leads, architects, and product managers
• Conduct code reviews and collaborate on unit and integration testing strategies
• Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of complex features across the Policy Engine and SailPoint Agentic Fabric
• Establish debugging and performance-profiling benchmarks to improve service latency, throughput, and reliability
• Participate in the engineering on-call rotation, approximately one week in 20, and drive operational improvements
• Serve as a subject matter expert on Policy Engine services and distributed system architecture
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level software engineers in software design patterns, Golang, Angular, and AI-assisted tooling
• Drive cross-functional architectural initiatives with engineering teams worldwide

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Angular
• Architect
• Backend
• Claude Code
• Cloud
• Cursor
• Docker
• Fabric
• Flink
• Frontend
• Golang
• Support
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• PyTorch
• Python
• Security
• Snowflake
• Terraform
• Web
• microservices
• numpy
• pandas
• UX UI Design

More:

We are SailPoint, and we are defining the next era of identity security with a unified, AI-powered platform for workforce, AI, and non-human identities. Our platform is built around principles such as zero-standing privilege and contextualized risk, and is trusted by large, complex organizations. This full-time Staff Software Engineer role is remote in the United Kingdom and is part of our collaborative, high-velocity UK Platform Engineering team, which builds and runs foundational services. The team is developing from backend and frontend specialisms toward end-to-end full-stack work and meets in person once per quarter for team offsites. We value autonomy, continuous learning, and close teamwork. We offer competitive pay, medical, dental, and vision plans, paid holidays, and career and growth opportunities; benefits vary by country. We welcome qualified candidates and provide equal employment consideration in accordance with applicable law.

last updated 40 week of 2026