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# Principal Software Engineer, Privileged Access Management at Saviynt

- **Company:** Saviynt
- **Location:** Vancouver, Canada
- **Compensation:** $160k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2024-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/saviynt/ec645cb9-8e3c-45b2-b0e9-387fae517e58

## Job description

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

Languages & Programming

Go strongly preferred as the platform’s primary language; deep proficiency in at least one systems/services language (Go, Rust, C++, Java, or similar) is required

Polyglot capability — you can read, reason about, and contribute across multiple languages, and you can defend language-choice decisions on technical merit

Frontend literacy in TypeScript/React is a plus

Architecture & Infrastructure

Solid hands-on Kubernetes experience — EKS or equivalent, Helm, manifests, operators, day-2 operations. Not “I used kubectl apply once.”

Cloud platform proficiency on AWS or Azure; multi-cloud experience is a plus Microservices and API design: REST, gRPC/Protobuf, and the trade-offs between them

Experience with event-driven architectures (message buses, async workflows) — you know when to reach for them and when not to

Workflow orchestration experience (Temporal or similar) is a plus

Relational database design at scale — PostgreSQL preferred; schema-per-tenant or comparable isolation patterns a plus

Engineering Practice

Strong testing discipline: unit, integration, end-to-end, and property-based testing

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm; GitOps (ArgoCD) a plus

CI/CD pipeline design and ownership — GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CloudBees, or equivalent

Observability: OpenTelemetry, structured logging, metrics, tracing

Containerization: Docker multi-stage builds, distroless/minimal runtimes

AI-Driven Development

Active, deliberate use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or comparable) as part of your daily workflow — beyond autocomplete

Comfort working in a spec-driven, agent-assisted development model with mandatory verification gates; AiDLC will be our SDLC, and we expect candidates to embrace and help refine it

Critical-review instincts: you don’t ship AI-generated code without reading it, testing it, and understanding it

Leadership

Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives across distributed teams

Strong written and verbal communication — you can write a clear design doc, a clear PR description, and a clear engineering contract for an AI agent

Comfortable operating in a globally distributed organization (US + India)

## Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience

Excellent facilitation and consensus-building skills across engineering, product, and security stakeholders

Demonstrated initiative and ability to prioritize independently in a fast-moving environment

## About Saviynt

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Saviynt provides an AI-powered identity security and access management platform that secures and governs every identity—human, non-human, and AI agent—across the entire digital ecosystem.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: El Segundo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Identity Security & Access Management (IAM/IGA) / Cybersecurity
- **Target Customers**: Large enterprises, Fortune 500 companies, government institutions (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or Purpose**: To safeguard enterprises through intelligent, cloud-first identity governance and access management solutions, helping organizations safely accelerate AI deployment while protecting digital assets and driving operational efficiency.

## Products & Services
- **Saviynt Identity Cloud (Platform)**: An AI-powered platform that manages and governs human, non-human, and AI agent access to applications, data, and business processes across hybrid, cloud, and on-premises environments. It combines Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Application Access Governance (AAG) into a single platform. **Type**: SaaS Platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $1.075 billion across multiple rounds. Annual Revenue is $89.3 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (lead, Series B), HPS Investment Partners, PNC Bank, Carrick Capital Partners. The company serves Fortune 500 companies and government institutions.
- **Growth Signals**: 1,260 employees (+28.0% YoY), 358,442 LinkedIn followers (+86.7% YoY), active job postings up +51.0% year-over-year, global expansion with offices in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and India.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Platform**: Combines IGA, PAM, and AAG into a single cloud-native platform, reducing complexity and cost for enterprises compared to multi-vendor solutions.
- **AI-Native Architecture**: Built for the AI age, it specifically addresses identity security for AI agents and non-human identities, a rapidly growing market need.
- **Enterprise Scale & Trust**: Designed for the largest, most complex organizations (Fortune 500, government) with a focus on compliance, security, and operational efficiency.
- **Strong Financial Backing**: $1.075 billion in total funding provides significant resources for R&D and market expansion.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Driven Identity Security**: Prioritizing the safe acceleration of AI deployment and usage by securing AI agent identities.
- **Global Expansion**: Deepening presence in key markets like India, the UK, Australia, and across Europe.
- **Platform Growth**: Continuing to unify and enhance the Identity Cloud platform to cover the full spectrum of identity challenges.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (+51% job postings YoY) to scale engineering, sales, and customer success teams.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Growth Environment**: Headcount grew 28% in the last year, offering strong career advancement potential in a fast-scaling company.
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Tackling critical cybersecurity challenges for the world’s largest organizations.
- **Global & Remote-First Culture**: Remote-friendly roles and hybrid options available, with offices in major cities globally (El Segundo, London, Sydney, Bengaluru). [saviynt.com](https://saviynt.com/careers)
- **Strong Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive base pay with bonuses, medical/dental/vision, retirement programs, and flexible time off. [saviynt.com](https://saviynt.com/careers)
- **Positive Employee Sentiment**: Average employer rating of **4.0/5.0** (436 reviews), with strong compensation (4.1) and career opportunity (4.0) scores. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/saviynt)
- **Diverse, Global Team**: Workforce spans 23 countries, offering a rich, multicultural work experience.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/saviynt)
2. [Saviynt Careers Page](https://saviynt.com/careers)
3. [Saviynt About Us](https://saviynt.com/company/about-saviynt)
4. [Lever Job Postings](https://jobs.lever.co/saviynt)
5. [CB Insights Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/saviynt)

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