# Associate Principal Software Engineer, Cloud & Edge Backend at Saviynt

- Company: Saviynt
- What the company does: Discover how Saviynt secures all identities, enabling enterprises to manage access, governance, and compliance confidently while addressing the unique security challenges of the AI era.
- Company website: https://saviynt.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Milpitas, California
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $220K to $235K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/saviynt/de5d318f-9c22-4366-b64d-2d44ddf4b88f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/saviynt-associate-principal-software-engineer-cloud-and-edge-backend/

## 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.

## What they're looking for

- 1+ years at a Associate Principal level of backend software engineering experience
- 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

Tags: Software Engineering