Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title : Senior DevOps Engineer

About SailPoint

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less. Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Identity Security Cloud Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and changing needs of today’s cloud-oriented, modern enterprise.

About the Role

Imagine a day where you transition from resolving an active system bottleneck to writing code that ensures nobody ever has to manually handle that operational task again. As a Senior DevOps Engineer on our team, you will spend your days turning manual runbooks into elegant, event-driven automations. You will design, build, and deploy production-grade software using Python and JavaScript/TypeScript. This role sits at the intersection of robust software development and systems reliability, meaning you will regularly evaluate blast radius, implement least-privilege IAM policies, and ensure every automated action is traceable and auditable.

Additionally, you will support our core database and streaming platforms in production and participate in the team's on-call rotation.

About the Team

You will join the Core Data Infrastructure team. We are responsible for running, maintaining, and scaling the critical data stores, distributed databases, and messaging systems that power our global Identity Security Cloud platform. Our technical ecosystem includes PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, and Kafka. We are a highly collaborative, globally distributed group of engineers who believe that high-quality professional engineering should empower individuals to make a real impact. This dedicated automation role is designed to systematically eliminate manual toil, allowing the engineering team to focus on solving complex, novel data challenges.

Roadmap for Success

30 Days Complete your engineering onboarding, gain a solid conceptual understanding of our cloud-native event-driven microservices architecture, and begin shadowing on-call engineers.

You will identify your first high-frequency manual runbook candidate for automated remediation.

60 Days Design, build, and deploy your first event-driven automation into our production environment using Python/TypeScript and AWS. You will also begin fully participating in the team's production on-call rotation.

6 Months Codify at least three major operational runbooks into safe, self-service or auto-triggered systems. You will establish shared deployment patterns and lead the team in utilizing LLM-augmented development tools like Cursor and Claude with proper code-review guardrails.

1 Year Own the automation roadmap for the Data Infrastructure team, leading to a measurable 50% reduction in repetitive operational tasks. You will partner closely with SRE, Security, and product teams to champion event-driven, self-healing systems across our cloud environment.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in related field, or equivalent professional experience

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building or operating production systems at a SaaS or cloud service provider

• Experience in 24x7 production operations for a highly available SaaS or cloud environment, including on-call responsibilities

• Strong programming ability in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, with the ability to own services end-to-end from design to production

• Deep hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, especially Lambda, EventBridge, IAM, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail

• Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting databases and distributed data stores in production (such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, or Kafka)

• Experience designing event-driven architectures and monitoring-triggered automation rather than just scheduled scripts

• Solid working knowledge of Kubernetes in production, including deployments, RBAC, controllers, and safe operational actions

• Experience with Prometheus and alert-driven workflows (Alertmanager, webhook consumers, or equivalent)

• Strong security instincts, including least-privilege IAM design, secrets handling, and blast-radius reasoning

• Track record of building for auditability, including structured logs, correlation IDs, and immutable change records

• Demonstrated use of LLM-augmented development tools such as Cursor and Claude, with a point of view on how to review their output responsibly

• CI/CD experience (such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins) and comfort owning the pipeline for your services

• Strong understanding of systems, networking, and distributed systems troubleshooting

• Strong written communication, with the ability to turn complex operational incidents into clear runbooks and code

• Ability to operate autonomously across time zones and collaborate with a globaly distributed team

Preferred Skills

• Experience replacing manual toil at scale with a measurable reduction in alerts, tickets, or MTTR

• Background in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering for a large multi-tenant SaaS environment

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and GitOps patterns

• Experience with data pipeline tooling (such as Apache Airflow) and streaming platforms (Kafka)

About SailPoint India & Benefits

Nestled in the heart of Pune, a bustling hub of technology and culture, the office exemplifies SailPoint's commitment to excellence. Surrounded by a vibrant atmosphere, the Pune office serves as a strategic center for the company, where cutting-edge solutions are crafted and implemented to address the ever-evolving challenges in identity security. With a team of highly skilled professionals, the office embodies SailPoint's values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact and Individuals.

Our Pune team works under a hybrid model enjoying the office 2-3 days a week (unless otherwise specified).

We provide excellent office amenities, competitive salaries and strong benefits:

• Our benefits program offers medical insurance for employees and their dependents, accident insurance and term life insurance for all employees. All premiums are paid by SailPoint.

• Company sponsored health-checkups for employees and discounted rates for dependents

• Annual performance bonus

• Restricted stock units at certain levels

• 24 Leaves every year in addition, 10 holidays

• Flexible Work hours

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.  

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