THIS IS A REMOTE ROLE
SailPoint's flagship product IdentityNow is the first and only comprehensive identity governance and management product to be truly delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Built from the ground up on a microservices, multi-tenant architecture, our goal is to ensure customers canprovision with confidence, protect at scale, and comply with certainty.
As a Software Engineering Manager you will lead a team of engineers that is delivering and supporting software that are critical pieces of the IdentityNow SaaS solution. You will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Architects, Quality and DevOps engineers, and other Engineering Managers to continuously deliver value to our customers. In turn, you will develop and grow as a manager and leader of people. You will receive thoughtful coaching, consistent feedback, collaboration on your career path, and support to learn and pursue success for your own career. You will gain experience through shipping great software, and leading a team through a complex environment to support customers and deliver results for the organization.
What You'll Make Happen:

• Lead SaaS projects from concept to implementation to achieve committed scope and schedule while managing x-dependencies and impacts.
• Facilitate project activities by managing risk and issue mitigations, establish project schedule, and manage change controls.
• Partner with Product Management to ensure your team has clear tactical and strategic backlogs
• Balance competing priorities to ensure we effectively ship new features while resolving defects and managing technical debt

• Recruit, coach, develop, and motivate high performing engineers
• Proactively seek to listen and find alignment with other engineering teams and stakeholders by understanding your team's technology, building strong relationships, and insisting on high-quality solutions

About you:
You're a Software Engineering Manager with technical experience in building backend services, data stores and APIs. You have deep enterprise SaaS knowledge. You want what your team builds to be robust, reliable, and set the bar for quality across the organization. You can understand a team as a kind of system, and you know the best way to optimize it is by working excellently with people while also understanding the technology. You know how to find, hire and retain top talent to build complex software while coaching them on their performance and engagement with their team.
What You Get Excited By:

• Your team achieving real business results and incremental milestones
• Delighting our customers and end users
• Coaching and developing engineers on your team along their chosen career paths
• Using data to objectively measure impact and optimize engineering processes
• Meeting deadlines and coordinating with technical team members in order to deliver quality results

• Attracting and motivating excellent engineers who care about great teams and great software

Requirements:

• 5+ years in a Software Engineering Management role on backend services exposing APIs
• 3+ years of hands on experience as a Software Engineer
• Deep knowledge of SaaS products, agile processes (Preferably SCRUM) and workflows, and experience implementing them

• Technical experience and fluency at the architectural level, enabling easy discussions with engineers
• Extensive experience architecting, designing, and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment
• Supporting and developing containerized CI/CD deployment such as Docker Containers, and Kubernetes
• Experience architecting highly distributed and available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability

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.