Senior / Staff Site Reliability, Platform Engineering

About Saviynt

Saviynt is a leader in identity security, delivering an AI-powered platform that governs and secures access to applications, data, and business processes for global enterprises and government institutions. Built for the AI era, Saviynt helps organizations move faster—securely and compliantly.

Why This Role Matters

Saviynt’s SaaS platform runs on complex, distributed, cloud-native systems. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring these systems remain highly available, scalable, and secure as the company grows. This is a hands-on engineering and technical leadership role. You will own reliability for major platform domains, design scalable solutions on Kubernetes and AWS, and drive automation and reliability improvements across multiple teams.

What You’ll Do

• In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the shared infrastructure services and platforms that our product and application teams will depend on.
• You will focus on creating reusable, reliable, and scalable solutions that abstract away complexity, enabling other teams to focus on their core business logic and deliver features faster in a multi-cloud environment.
• You will design and build core platform components and shared infrastructure services that other development teams will integrate with and leverage to deploy and operate their applications.
• You will architect, implement, and manage highly available and scalable Kubernetes platforms as a service for internal consumers.
• You will develop robust, internal-facing tools and automation for infrastructure provisioning and management primarily using Go (Golang).
• You will architect and optimize foundational solutions within Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.), focusing on creating reusable patterns and modules for other teams.
• You will design and implement shared Event-Driven Architecture components and messaging platforms using technologies like Kafka or Google Pub/Sub that product teams can easily utilize.
• You will develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI and ArgoCD) as a service, providing standardized and automated deployment workflows for various development teams.
• You will design and build resilient Distributed Systems components that serve as building blocks for other applications, focusing on reliability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• You will manage and optimize our shared infrastructure across Multi-Region Cloud Environments, ensuring that platform services are globally available and performant for all consumers.
• You will define and implement clear, well-documented RESTful API designs for the infrastructure services you build, ensuring ease of integration for internal clients.
• You will implement and manage Service Mesh (e.g., Envoy, Istio) capabilities, providing traffic management, security, and policy enforcement as a shared platform for services.
• You will design, implement, and optimize highly available Relational Database services or shared data platforms for broad organizational use.
• You will collaborate closely with product development teams to understand their infrastructure needs and pain points, providing technical guidance and support.
• You will participate in on-call rotations to support the critical shared infrastructure you build.

What We’re Looking For

• 1+ years of experience as a Staff SRE with a strong focus on building tools and services for other engineers.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments, particularly in providing it as a platform(i.e single tenant and multi-tenant deployment architectures).
• Strong programming skills in Go (Golang) and Python, with experience building robust, maintainable backend services and automation.
• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure); multi-cloud experience is a strong plus, especially in building abstractions over them.
• Prominent experience designing and implementing Event-Driven Architecture and message queuing systems (e.g., Kafka, RMQ, NATS) as shared services.
• Solid understanding and practical experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (especially GitLab CI) and experience establishing automated delivery processes for other teams.
• Demonstrable experience designing and operating Distributed Systems, with an understanding of patterns for creating reliable, shared components.
• Familiarity with Multi-Region Cloud Environments and strategies for building globally distributed and highly available platform.
• Proven experience designing and operating Observability and Monitoring platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog) for shared infrastructure.
• Strong experience with RESTful API design principles and building well-documented, consumable APIs.
• Knowledge of Service Mesh concepts and practical experience with solutions like Istio in a platform context.
• Hands-on experience with Relational Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgresSQL), ideally in managing them as a service.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A strong customer-centric mindset, treating internal development teams as your primary customers.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required

Why Join Saviynt

• Work on a large-scale, cloud-native SaaS platform.
• Solve complex reliability challenges at scale.
• Influence platform architecture and engineering practices.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth.

Security & Compliance

This role requires adherence to Saviynt’s information security and privacy policies, including annual security training. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.