Principal Software Engineer, Cloud & Edge Backend

About the role

Join Saviynt’s AI Security team as a founding member and help build the next-generation AI Security platform for enterprise identity and privileged access. You will architect and develop highly scalable microservices in Go (Golang) to power both the Cloud Control Plane and distributed Edge Backends, securing the identity perimeter at scale in the AI age.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the next-generation AI Security platform for enterprise identity and privileged access.
• Design and develop highly scalable microservices in Go (Golang) for the Cloud Control Plane and distributed Edge Backends.
• Build the Cloud Control Plane responsible for policy management, AI governance, discovery orchestration, analytics, reporting, and APIs.
• Build distributed Edge Backends operating as local Points of Presence (PoPs) for headquarters, regional hubs, branch offices, and customer data centers.
• Design resilient policy synchronization from Cloud → Edge → Endpoint with secure fail-closed enforcement during connectivity failures.
• Build enterprise-scale discovery services for cloud resources, on-prem infrastructure, endpoints, applications, databases, and AI agents.
• Develop access-brokering capabilities enabling privileged access to applications, machines, and services through local Edge Backends.
• Design highly available, observable, and resilient distributed systems using modern cloud-native technologies.
• Mentor engineers, lead architecture discussions, and drive engineering best practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted software development throughout the SDLC to improve productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Build platform capabilities to discover, govern, and secure AI agents, automation frameworks, MCP servers, and agentic applications.
• Develop scalable services supporting AI-native enterprise workloads.
• Follow AI SDLC best practices across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.

Requirements

• 1+ years of Principal-level backend software engineering experience with a SaaS company.
• Expert-level Go (Golang) development.
• Deep experience building distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, REST APIs, and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/NATS, or similar distributed infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of networking, authentication, authorization, TLS, proxies, and distributed caching.
• Experience building enterprise security, IAM, PAM, Zero Trust, or networking products is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, ChatGPT, or similar.
• Understanding of modern AI application architectures, including LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, orchestration frameworks, and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Familiarity with AI SDLC best practices, including AI-assisted development, automated testing, secure coding, CI/CD automation, observability, and responsible use of AI-generated code.
• Strong technical leadership, architecture, mentoring, and communication skills.

If required for this role, you will complete security & privacy literacy and awareness training during onboarding and annually thereafter, and review, understand, and adhere to Information Security/Privacy Policies and Procedures.

Benefits

Saviynt offers a competitive total rewards package, learning opportunities, and tremendous potential for career growth and advancement. The work is challenging yet rewarding, directly impacting customers in a welcoming and positive environment.

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $240,000 - $250,000 annually. You may also be eligible to participate in a Saviynt discretionary bonus plan, subject to program rules and individual and organizational performance.