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Senior Staff Performance Engineer

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Hybrid
Austin, TX
151K-281K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
Austin, TX
151K-281K Annually
Senior level
The Senior Staff Performance Engineer is responsible for designing performance tests, developing load test scripts, analyzing bottlenecks, and mentoring team members on performance best practices.
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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 just the right access to do their job – no more, no less.

SailPoint’s flagship product: Identity Security Cloud is the industry’s first and only comprehensive identity governance product to be truly delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Identity Security Cloud provides services for access certifications, access request approvals and automated provisioning, password management and separation of duties to connect and centrally control access to every application. At SailPoint, we understand that a fun-loving work environment can be highly motivating and productive. When smart people work on intriguing problems and they enjoy working together, great things get accomplished. With that philosophy, we’ve assembled the best identity team in the world that is passionate about the firm's mission.

SailPoint is seeking Senior Staff Performance Engineer with solid understanding of backend service (Major Langs: Java & Go or Python) and a desire to learn about cloud-native technologies (AWS or GCP), and who are passionate about building and delivering reliable, scalable, observable microservices for enterprise-grade, multi-tenant SaaS products.

Due to FedRAMP requirements, US Citizenship is required to be considered for this role

This is a hybrid role located in Austin, TX.

Responsibilities:

  • Understand and learn SailPoint ISC design and deployment architecture.

  • Design and Setup data in the Performance lab to emulate SailPoint customers data volume and shape.

  • Deep understanding of profiling and software monitoring tools.

  • Develop load test scripts and create tools necessary for performance testing software and infrastructure. 

  • Write performance test plans, analyze, conduct test, identify performance bottlenecks, and extract best practices from lessons learned.

  • Provide tuning and performance improvement recommendations for tested software and infrastructure.

  • Publish and communicate the results of performance tests, scalability assessments, and recommendations.

  • Promote and educate other engineers about performance best practices.

  • Mentoring other team members in the performance group.

Requirements :

  • Due to FedRAMP requirements, US Citizenship is required to be considered for this role

  • 10+ years of professional performance testing and profiling experience.

  • Experience with an object-oriented programming language and techniques.

  • Experience with monitoring and tracing SaaS tooling.

  • Understanding and experience with cloud-native technologies.

  • Understanding of Java Frameworks.

  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.

  • Experience with Event Driven Architecture and messaging infrastructure (Kafka and Redis)

  • Experience with Performance testing concepts and tools like Grafana K6, Prometheus, and Apache JMeter.

  • Familiarity with Linux OS.

  • Great communication, problem solving and analytic skills.

What success looks like in the role:
In the first 30 days you will:

  • Meet team, understand the team’s mission and vision

  • Learn product high level Architecture.

  • Learn Identity Governance Concepts.

  • Gain clarity on various roles and expectations

  • Complete development environment setup

  • Read guides, documentation, perform mandatory training

  • Learn company processes, benefits

By 2 months you should:

  • Understand team goals and OKR’s for the quarter and beyond

  • Understand key dependencies, meet key stakeholders

  • Be comfortable with tools, systems and processes used on a day-to-day basis

  • Have executed test work, both supervised and unsupervised.

By 6 months, you should be able to:

  • Demonstrate thorough understanding of the product and architecture

  • Exercise independence and autonomy in managing their roles and responsibilities

  • Accomplish projects on your own with limited guidance

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary, for US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-mid-max, USD):

$151,100 - $215,800 - $280,500

Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee’s home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance

2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children

5. Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

9. Sick leave

10. Parental support: Paid parental leave

11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors

12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options

13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

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.  

Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability. Contact [email protected] or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78726, to discuss reasonable accommodations.  NOTE: Any unsolicited resumes sent by candidates or agencies to this email will not be considered for current openings at SailPoint.

Top Skills

Apache Jmeter
AWS
GCP
Go
Grafana K6
Java
Kafka
Linux
NoSQL
Prometheus
Python
Redis
SQL

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