Senior Staff DevOps Engineer

About this role

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 customers unmatched visibility into their digital workforce and ensuring workers have the right access, no more and no less.

Built on a foundation of AI and machine learning, our Identity Security Cloud (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 enterprise. SailPoint is all-in on the AI revolution, and our engineers have access to the latest frontier models and agentic frameworks.

About the Role

As a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer on the Infrastructure Platform team, you will be a technical leader responsible for designing, building, and operating SailPoint's global Identity Security Cloud infrastructure on AWS. You will partner with engineering teams across the US, India, EMEA, and APAC to deliver a resilient, secure platform.

You will serve as the Kubernetes platform leader for the team, driving large-scale improvements such as implementing a service mesh (Istio, Linkerd, or AWS App Mesh) across hundreds of microservices and production EKS clusters, and guiding engineers on cloud-native deployment patterns. You will also play a key role in supporting SailPoint's PCI compliance initiative, helping ensure our platform infrastructure meets PCI DSS requirements.

This is a fully remote position for candidates based in the USA or Canada. The role carries significant technical influence across the organization, setting architecture direction, mentoring engineers, and driving operational excellence without requiring people management.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in complex, fast-paced SaaS environments, has proven hands-on experience rolling out and operating a service mesh at scale across large microservices environment...