Principal Engineer, Cloud Platforms

Saviynt is a leader in identity security, delivering an AI-powered platform that governs and secures access to applications, data, and business processes for some of the world’s largest enterprises and government institutions. Built for the AI era, Saviynt enables organizations to move faster—securely and compliantly.

Saviynt’s platform is mission‑critical for our customers. As we scale globally, reliability, availability, and performance are not optional—they are core product features.

As a Principal Engineer, you will define and drive the reliability strategy for our SaaS platform. This is a high‑impact, hands‑on engineering role with broad influence across infrastructure, platform, and application teams. You will shape how Saviynt designs, operates, and measures reliability at scale.

This role is ideal for engineers who want to work on hard reliability problems, influence architecture across teams, and leave a lasting mark on a growing SaaS platform.

In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the shared infrastructure services and platforms that our product and application teams will depend on

You will focus on creating reusable, reliable, and scalable solutions that abstract away complexity, enabling other teams to focus on their core business logic and deliver features faster in a multi‑cloud environment

Design and build core platform components and shared infrastructure services that other development teams will integrate with and leverage to deploy and operate their applications

Architect, implement, and manage highly available and scalable Kubernetes platforms as a service for internal consumers

Develop robust, internal‑facing tools and automation for infrastructure provisioning and management primarily using Go (Golang)

Architect and optimize foundational solutions within Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.), focusing on creating reusable patterns and modules for other teams

Design and implement shared Event‑Driven Architecture components and messaging platforms using technologies like Kafka or Google Pub/Sub that product teams can easily utilize

Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git Lab CI and ArgoCD) as a service, providing standardized and automated deployment workflows for various development teams

Design and build resilient Distributed Systems components that serve as building blocks for other applications, focusing on reliability, fault tolerance, and performance

Manage and optimize our shared infrastructure across Multi‑Region Cloud Environments, ensuring that platform services are globally available and performant for all consumers

Establish and enhance centralized Observability and Monitoring platforms and tools that provide self‑service insights for consuming teams

Define and implement clear, well‑documented RESTful API designs for the infrastructure services you build, ensuring ease of integration for internal clients

Implement and manage Service Mesh (e.g., Envoy, Istio) capabilities, providing traffic management, security, and policy enforcement as a shared platform for services

Design, implement, and optimize highly available Relational Database services or shared data platforms for broad organizational use

Collaborate closely with product development teams to understand their infrastructure needs and pain points, providing technical guidance and support

Participate in on‑call rotations to support the critical shared infrastructure you build

9+ years of experience in an Infrastructure Development, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering role, with a strong focus on building tools and services for other engineers

Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments, particularly in providing it as a platform (i.e single tenant and multi‑tenant deployment architectures)

Strong programming skills in Go (Golang) and Python, with experience building robust, maintainable backend services and automation

Extensive hands‑on experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure); multi‑cloud experience is a strong plus, especially in building…