Software Engineer

Principal Engineer — PAM Platform
Saviynt’s Enterprise Identity Cloud helps modern enterprises scale cloud initiatives and solve the toughest security and compliance challenges in record time. We bring together Identity Governance (IGA), granular application access, cloud security, and Privileged Access Management (PAM) to secure the entire business ecosystem with a frictionless user experience. The world’s largest brands — including federal agencies and Fortune 500 financial institutions — trust Saviynt to accelerate digital transformation, empower distributed workforces, and meet continuous compliance.   This role is on the PAM Platform team, building the next generation of PAM infrastructure that runs across multi-tenant SaaS, customer-managed deployments, and federal GovCloud environments. We are a distributed, AI-first R&D organization, and we are actively rolling out an AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AiDLC) as our SDLC of record.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Drive technical strategy and architecture across PAM platform components, including federal-compliant deployment topologies   Partner with Product and Engineering Management on requirements analysis, roadmap planning, and technical decision-making   Lead end-to-end design and delivery of new services from greenfield through production hardening   Operate within and help shape our AiDLC workflow: living specs, AI-generated implementations, property-based and integration testing as blocking gates, and audit-tracked human approvals   Author and maintain the engineering contracts (CLAUDE.md, prompt libraries, agent skills, code standards) that govern how AI-driven development happens on the platform   Conduct deep code reviews on critical and security-sensitive changes — including AI-generated code   Mentor senior, staff, and associate principal engineers; raise the technical bar across the team

Debug, optimize, and refactor existing services as we evolve toward multi-tenant, multi-cloud, federal-
ready

Serve as a technical expert for internal teams and, when needed, customer-facing escalations

WHAT YOU BRING

Experience

1+ year of software engineering experience as a Principal Software Engineer with a SaaS company

Track record of taking systems from design through production at scale, including multi-tenant SaaS

Security & Compliance

Hands-on experience building security-focused systems — Privileged Access Management, Identity Governance, Authentication, Secrets Management, or adjacent domains

Required knowledge of FedRAMP, FIPS 140-3, and GovCloud (AWS GovCloud or Azure Government) — what they constrain, why, and how to design within them

Working knowledge of modern cryptography in practice: TLS/mTLS, KMS-backed key hierarchies, envelope encryption, HSM/key vault integration