Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering & Edge Infrastructure

About the role

Come join us as founding members of Saviynt’s AI Security team and help us build out AI security for the world's leading enterprises. Saviynt's AI-powered identity platform manages and governs human and non-human access to all of an organization's applications, data, and business processes. Customers trust Saviynt to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the infrastructure powering Cloud and Edge platform deployments.
• Build deployment automation for distributed Edge PoPs supporting headquarters, branch offices, regional hubs, and customer data centers.
• Design highly available deployment architectures supporting secure fail-closed operation and resilient policy synchronization.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, release automation, upgrade orchestration, and lifecycle management for Cloud, Edge, and Endpoint components.
• Develop observability platforms, including logging, metrics, tracing, health monitoring, and audit pipelines.
• Automate provisioning, certificate lifecycle management, secrets management, and secure configuration distribution.
• Drive platform scalability, operational excellence, reliability, disaster recovery, and security.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering across infrastructure, deployment automation, and platform operations.
• Build infrastructure supporting AI-native applications, AI services, and distributed agentic workloads.
• Follow AI SDLC best practices for software delivery, automation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate emerging AI infrastructure technologies to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• 1+ years of Principal-level platform engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
• Deep experience operating Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms at enterprise scale.
• Strong experience with Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Ansible, or similar automation technologies.
• Experience with distributed networking, service meshes, proxies, DNS, load balancing, and TLS.
• Strong experience in Linux systems administration and infrastructure automation.
• Experience deploying highly available distributed enterprise software across multiple customer environments.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, ChatGPT, or similar.
• Understanding of AI application architectures, AI agents, MCP, and AI-enabled infrastructure.
• Familiarity with AI SDLC best practices, including AI-assisted development, automated testing, CI/CD automation, observability, and responsible use of AI-generated code.
• Strong operational mindset with excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership 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, and tremendous opportunities to grow and advance in your career within a welcoming and positive work 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 the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including individual and organizational performance.