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Principal Software Engineer, Cloud & Edge Backend

Saviynt · Milpitas, California · Hybrid

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About Saviynt

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

With the rise of AI and Agents, the identity perimeter needs to be secured at scale. 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 of Principal-level backend software engineering experience with a SaaS company
  • 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
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 .

With the rise of AI and Agents, the identity perimeter needs to be secured at scale. 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.

Architect and build the next-generation AI Security platform for enterprise identity and privileged access.

Design and develop highly scalable microservices in Go (Golang) that power the Cloud Control Plane and distributed Edge Backends.

Build the Cloud Control Plane responsible for policy management, AI governance, discovery orchestration, analytics,...

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