# Distinguished Software Engineer, Data Platform 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: Mid level
- Location: Milpitas, California
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $300K to $320K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/saviynt/d598946b-5f3a-4d59-82c3-4719fff0c1f7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/saviynt-distinguished-software-engineer-data-platform/

## 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

Tags: Software Engineering