Senior GoLang Engineer

Job Description

Job title: Senior GoLang Engineer We will give preference to candidates located in Austin, TX and willing to come into the office 2-3 days per week. About SailPoint: SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less. Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Identity Security Cloud Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and changing needs of today’s cloud-oriented, modern enterprise. About the role: In this role, you will spend much of your time understanding business problems and shared engineering desires across teams to collaborate, debate, design, prototype and implement software. Your ability to build trusting relationships through use of your expertise and careful listening to stakeholders and your team will be paramount to success in this role. You will also lead feature development within the team, writing exemplary code, consistently setting the bar for code reviews and technical advice on your team. Requirements: Deep implementation experience in GoLang for at least 2+ years, and 5+ years of general experience with GoLang required. • Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies • Experience with large scale data processing pipelines, in distributed environments (Kubernetes, Consul, gRPC, Kafka, Cassandra) • 5+ years of overall professional software development experience • 3+ years of experience leading systems design • 2+ years of professional experience in a multiple-stakeholder environment • A proven ability to change your own opinions and preferred methods based on new evidence • Truly excellent written & verbal communication skills, including the art of being concise • “Conversant” on identity security is a plus What success looks like in the role Within the first 30 days you will: • Onboard into your new role, get familiar with our product offering and technology, proactively meet peers and stakeholders, set up your test and development environment. • Seek to deeply understand business problems or common engineering challenges and propose software architecture designs to solve them elegantly by abstracting useful common patterns. By 90 days: • Proactively collaborate on, discuss, debate and refine ideas, problem statements, and software designs with different (sometimes many) stakeholders, architects and members of your team. • Take a committed approach to prototyping and co-implementing systems alongside less experienced engineers on your team—there’s no room for ivory towers here. By 6 months: • Share support of critical team systems by participating in on-call rotations, learning the characteristics of currently running systems, and participating in improvements. • Occasionally serve as a debugging and implementation expert during escalations of systems issues that have evaded the ability of less experienced engineers to solve in a timely manner. • Collaborates with Product Management and Engineering Manager to produce a prioritized team roadmap You can read more about SailPoint and our core values here . SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Apply Job!