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.
About the role
applications cannot reach. As Distinguished Engineer, Data Platform, you will own the end-to-end integrations. This is a multi-year, org-wide mandate. You will set the technical direction that other
What they're looking for
- 2-3 years of experience as a Distinguished Engineer in distributed systems and data engineering, including a track record of setting data architecture direction at an org-wide, multi-year level
- • Deep, hands-on expertise with distributed database engines that support mixed transactional and analytical workloads at scale — internal architecture, benchmarking methodology, and real production trade-offs, not just theoretical familiarity
- • Proven experience architecting real-time data-replication and streaming pipelines at scale, including schema evolution, delivery-guarantee tradeoffs, and multi-consumer fan-out
- • Strong background in multi-tenant SaaS data architecture: tenant isolation models, per-tenant routing, and governed, self-service data access patterns
- • Experience modernizing large-scale data infrastructure — search, logging, or observability — including cost optimization at scale
- • Track record of running rigorous, benchmark-backed build-vs-buy evaluations and defending the resulting recommendations to executive and security stakeholders
More about this role
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. Built for the AI age, Saviynt is today helping organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI. Saviynt is recognized as the leader in identity security, with solutions that protect and empower the world’s leading brands, Fortune 500 companies and government institutions. For more information, please visit www.saviynt.com .
Our platform serves hundreds of enterprise and government tenants, and much of the data that
powers it is still locked inside isolated, per-customer systems that our newer multi-tenant
applications cannot reach. As Distinguished Engineer, Data Platform, you will own the end-to-end
vision, architecture, and execution for solving this at the highest level: a single, governed data
platform that ingests data out of legacy per-tenant systems in real time, transforms and serves it
through one shared, multi-tenant layer, and lets every consuming application —...
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