Distinguished Engineer, Cloud Architecture

Saviynt is the most innovative cloud identity and access governance platform on the market.  We secure hundreds of millions of identities at many of the world’s largest enterprises, helping them transform their identity programs and protect their people, assets, and infrastructure.  We are growing aggressively and need senior cloud architects to help us scale our infrastructure.
 
As a Distinguished Engineer in the Cloud Architecture team, you will be an integral member of a small, high-performance/high-impact team responsible for compute, data storage and pipelines, and network architecture.  You are a hands-on technical leader writing design docs and code.  Successfully scaling our infrastructure requires not only making smart technical design decisions, but empowering our engineers to build upon and operate it.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

- Understand and deeply focus on the real-world benefits your systems and products will have on our customers. No ivory tower architecture.

- Be driven by and have bias toward autonomy. You’ll be given context on the problems we’re trying to solve, but you’ll need to figure out how to solve them on your own.

- Be driven by and have a bias toward execution. You’ll need to employ excellent judgement, communicate your decisions clearly and widely, and be accountable for the results.

- Be invested in the long term view. While we need to deliver value quarter, we need to avoid technical debut and other forms of unnecessary complications will serve us poorly in the future.

- Possess engineering breadth and depth. We need generalists, but you also need to be deeply skilled in one or more areas of network, data storage, data pipelines, compute, or software delivery

WHAT YOU BRING

- Data expertise includes deep understanding of relational, document, and columnar database architecture, schema design, performance tuning, and operational considerations

- Experience with distributed relational databases such as CockroachDB or Vitess, including cluster operations, sharding/partitioning, and transactional consistency models

- Strong knowledge of Change Data Capture (CDC) systems (e.g., Debezium), including designing reliable change streams and integrating them into downstream services

- Experience building and operating streaming and batch data pipelines, ideally using technologies like Kafka for event streaming and modern orchestration/processing tools (e.g., Flink, Spark, Beam, or equivalent systems)

- Expertise with object-store-based data architectures, including table formats such as Apache Iceberg, and an understanding of how they enable large-scale analytics, versioning, and schema evolution

- Please note that we do not expect you to be an expert in every single one of the above. This should give you an idea of the type of challenges we have

If required for this role, you will:
- Complete security & privacy literacy and awareness training during onboarding and annually thereafter
- Review (initially and annually thereafter), understand, and adhere to Information Security/Privacy Policies and Procedures such as (but not limited to):

> Data Classification, Retention & Handling Policy
> Incident Response Policy/Procedures
> Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Policy/Procedures
> Mobile Device Policy
> Account Management Policy
> Access Control Policy
> Personnel Security Policy
> Privacy Policy

Saviynt is an amazing place to work. We are a high-growth, Platform as a Service company focused on Identity Authority to power and protect the world at work. You will experience tremendous growth and learning opportunities through challenging yet rewarding work which directly impacts our customers, all within a welcoming and positive work environment. If you're resilient and enjoy working in a dynamic environment you belong with us!

Saviynt is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.