Sr. Staff Software Engineer

Job Description: Senior Staff Engineer – Sustaining Engineering

Location: Remote
Education: BA/BS or equivalent experience

Overview:

SailPoint is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead technical program management and process ownership within our Sustaining Engineering team for the IdentityIQ product. This team is responsible for maintaining product quality through patch releases, emergency fixes (EFIX), vulnerability management, and resolution of high-priority customer-reported issues. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, strong leadership in defect triage and resolution, and a passion for process ownership and continuous improvement.

This role blends technical leadership with sustaining Agile process ownership, validation of security fixes, guiding technical investigations, coordinating cross-functional efforts, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery of patches and fixes.

At SailPoint, we live by our values:

• Innovation: You’ll help evolve our sustaining processes and tools to improve efficiency and quality.

• Integrity: You’ll be a trusted technical leader, ensuring transparency and accountability in issue resolution.

• Impact: Your work will directly influence customer satisfaction and product stability.

• Individuals: You’ll collaborate across teams and mentor others, fostering a culture of respect and growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead technical triage and resolution of complex customer-reported issues.

• Own and evolve the sustaining engineering process, including patch planning, EFIX delivery, and defect lifecycle management.

• Collaborate with Support, Professional Services, QA, and Engineering teams to ensure alignment and timely resolution of escalated issues.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to sustaining engineers and testers.

• Coordinate and prioritize sustaining engineering efforts with multiple stakeholder organizations, such as Support Management, Escalation Management, and Customer Success Management.

• Ensure quality and regression testing coverage for all sustaining deliverables.

• Occasionally engage directly with customers to support L3 escalations and communicate resolution strategies.

• Drive continuous improvement in sustaining workflows, tooling, and documentation.  Specific interest in the use of AI for continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise software development or technical leadership, preferably in a Java/J2EE environment.

• Strong understanding of software debugging, defect triage, and root cause analysis.

• Experience with REST-based services, databases (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.), and web application servers (Tomcat, WebLogic, etc.).

• Familiarity with revision control systems (GitHub) and testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG).

• Excellent communication and organizational skills; able to work across technical and non-technical teams.

• Demonstrated ability to lead without direct authority and influence outcomes through collaboration.

• Experience in Agile environments and a passion for process optimization.

What Success Looks Like in the Role

Within the first 30 days you will: (Onboarding & Familiarization) 

• Successfully onboard into your new role, including setting up your test and development environment.

• Build foundational knowledge of our product offering and technology stack.

• Proactively connect with peers, sustaining engineers, and key stakeholders to begin building working relationships.

• Learn our sustaining engineering processes, including navigating Confluence documentation and Jira dashboards.

• Shadow the current sustaining lead to gain contextual understanding of workflows and priorities.

• Complete beginner-level SailPoint IdentityIQ training to establish product familiarity.

• Begin investigating and triaging simpler bug reports to develop initial technical insight.

By 90 days:  (Operational Engagement & Technical Leadership)

• Demonstrate operational fluency in sustaining processes, including issue triage, investigation workflows, and use of Confluence and Jira.

• Transition from shadowing to active technical leadership of sustaining processes and tools.

• Establish working relationships with key stakeholders and begin driving improvements in documentation and metrics.

• Complete intermediate-level SailPoint IdentityIQ training to deepen product expertise.

• Independently research and assess bug triage items, evaluating risk, code impact, and complexity.

• Begin identifying and delegating triage items to appropriate sustaining engineers based on scope and specialization.

By 6 months: (Strategic Impact & Ownership)  

• Collaborate closely with Support Management and your Engineering Manager to serve as a key liaison between external stakeholders and the sustaining team.

• Fully own and lead sustaining processes, including documentation, dashboards, and operational metrics.

• Complete advanced-level SailPoint IdentityIQ training to achieve expert-level product understanding.

• Lead bug triage efforts with strategic delegation to sustaining engineers, ensuring efficient prioritization and resolution.

• Drive continuous improvement in sustaining workflows and contribute to team-wide knowledge sharing and process optimization.

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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