Senior Data Engineer
Core
Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming pipelines, warehouse/lakehouse models, and data services for SailPoint's Identity Security Cloud platform.
Role type
Senior individual contributor data engineer
Builds
Identity Security Cloud, Identity Graph, analytics, and ML products
Domain
Cloud identity security and data platform engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
SQL, data modeling, query optimization, dbt, Airflow, Python/Java/Scala, distributed processing (Kafka/Flink/Spark/Cassandra), cloud-native systems (AWS/Azure/GCP), data governance
Preferred skills
Apache Iceberg, graph-oriented data systems, SLOs and observability, Kubernetes, Terraform, MLOps, IAM/IGA domains
Technologies
Snowflake, Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, dbt, Airflow, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenSearch
Responsibilities
Design and operate ETL/ELT pipelines on managed lakehouse; build robust data models for warehouse and lakehouse; contribute to data architecture and design discussions; improve performance, reliability, and cost of data systems; implement data quality checks, governance, and observability; mentor junior engineers; participate in on-call rotation for data systems
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities