Sr. Manager, Engineering

Sr. Manager, Engineering, Enterprise Platform

US Remote

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 and ensuring every identity has the right access to do their job, no more, no less.

Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Atlas 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 across human, machine, and AI identities.

About the Role

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Enterprise Platform, you will lead one or more senior engineering teams responsible for core platform capabilities that the rest of SailPoint builds on. These teams own backend services, APIs, data stores, and the distributed systems that power the Atlas Platform at scale.

As a highly technical leader, you will own the operating rhythm and delivery health of your team(s), help solve complex challenges around scalability and reliability, reduce technical debt, and shape where the team invests. You will be expected to reach productivity quickly and to operate close enough to the work to know its real state at any time.

Stakeholder management is a significant aspect of this role. You will work closely with Product Management, Design, Architecture, Quality, DevOps, and customer-facing teams. You should proactively seek alignment with other engineering teams and stakeholders by deeply understanding your team's technology, building strong relationships, and insisting on high-quality solutions.

You will report to a Senior Director of Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

·       Own the day-to-day operating cadence of your team(s), including planning, prioritization, standups, and retrospectives, and use that cadence to stay close to the work, surface risks early, and keep delivery predictable.

·       Partner with Product Management to set a clear strategic direction and roadmap, and translate it into sequenced, well-scoped execution.

·       Engage substantively in technical decisions, fluent enough at the architectural level to discuss tradeoffs with senior engineers, challenge design decisions, and guide the team toward sound, scalable solutions.

·       Coach, grow, and develop engineers along their career paths, and shape the team through hiring and performance management.

·       Drive scalability, reliability, and technical-debt reduction, and determine where engineering investment should be made.

·       Manage risk, dependencies, and cross-team commitments, resolving issues proactively rather than escalating them.

·       Allocate resources across competing priorities and make clear, defensible tradeoff decisions under load.

Requirements

·       8+ years in a Software Engineering Management role on backend services exposing APIs.

·       5+ years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer.

·       Deep knowledge of complex, scaling SaaS products, agile processes and workflows, and experience implementing them.

·       Technical fluency at the architectural level, enabling easy discussions with engineers and the ability to challenge technical decisions.

·       Experience with microservice architecture and distributed systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability.

·       Experience across a modern backend stack, such as polyglot services (Java, Go, Rust), event-driven and workflow-orchestration systems (Kafka, SQS, Temporal), and relational and NoSQL data stores (MySQL, DynamoDB).

·       Extensive experience architecting, designing, and operating applications in an AWS cloud environment.

·       Experience supporting and developing containerized CI/CD deployment such as Docker and Kubernetes.

·       BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

Roadmap and Timeline to Success

Within the first 30 days you will:

·       Onboard into your new role and get familiar with our product offering, platform, and technology.

·       Get to know your engineers and leads, understand what motivates them, and identify their areas of development.

·       Take ownership of your team's operating cadence, planning, standups, and retrospectives, so you have a direct, firsthand read on the team's work and its status.

·       Seek to deeply understand the business problems and common engineering challenges your team owns, and begin forming your own view of them.

·       Interview stakeholders to understand business goals, the product roadmap, and the challenges ahead.

By 90 days you will:

·       Motivate, encourage, and challenge your team(s) to find optimal synergy.

·       Understand the technical challenges ahead and actively participate in technical decision-making.

·       Understand your team's decision-making process and challenge them to find more optimal solutions.

·       Know the real status of your team's critical-path work at any time, without needing it surfaced for you.

·       Have regular syncs with your stakeholders and own the cross-team commitments your team has made.

·       Be implementing fast, iterative improvements to delivery and quality.

By 6 months you will:

·       Be making significant, measurable progress on technical debt while balancing new feature delivery and defect resolution.

·       Have a team that is consistently delivering on its commitments by deadline.

·       Have earned the trust of your team and become a respected partner to your stakeholders.

·       Be attracting and motivating excellent engineers who care about great teams and great software.

·       Have your personal goals on track.

By 1 year you will:

·       Have a team whose size and skills are aligned to your roadmap and operating efficiently.

·       Have a team consistently achieving real business results and incremental milestones.

·       Maintain a culture of continuous learning by coaching and developing your engineers along their chosen career paths.

·       Consistently use data to objectively measure impact and optimize engineering processes.

·       Consistently meet deadlines and coordinate with technical team members to deliver quality results.

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary, for US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-mid-max, USD):

Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee’s home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance

2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children

5. Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

9. Sick leave

10. Parental support: Paid parental leave

11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors

12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options

13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

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.  

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