Saviynt

Principal Software Engineer, Customer Engineering

Saviynt$240K — $250K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 8+ years in customer-facing or customer engineering roles.
  • Experience in large-scale, multi-tenant production environments.
  • Fluency in modern AI tooling and a continuous learning mindset.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) tools.
  • Strong command of testing practices and agile methodologies.
  • Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
  • Deep understanding of APIs and enterprise integrations.
  • Outstanding communication skills, suitable for technical and executive audiences.
  • Experience in Identity & Access Management (IAM / IGA) preferred, familiarity with Zero Trust or governance frameworks a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy AI agents to automate customer escalation workflows.
  • Integrate capabilities into identity platforms, translating customer needs to engineering.
  • Drive innovation at the intersection of AI, Identity Governance, and cybersecurity.
  • Serve as a technical liaison among Customer Support, Customer Success, and Product teams.
  • Engage on customer calls to represent Engineering and prepare executives for escalations.
  • Identify tooling improvements and propose new analysis tools.
  • Track escalation metrics and provide executive summaries.

Benefits

  • Competitive total rewards package with learning opportunities.
  • Tremendous opportunities for career growth.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary bonus plan.
Full Job Description
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

  • Build and deploy AI agents that automate customer escalation workflows - reducing resolution times and improving engineering efficiency.
  • Integrate agentic capabilities into identity platforms, translating customer needs into engineering roadmap contributions.
  • Drive innovation at the intersection of AI, Identity Governance (IGA), and cybersecurity - helping enterprises govern Non-Human Identities and agentic workflows.
  • Serve as a technical liaison between Customer Support, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Product - bridging the gap between customer pain points and scalable solutions.
  • Engage directly on customer calls to represent Engineering and, where needed, prepare Engineering executives ahead of escalations.
  • Identify and champion tooling improvements - proposing new troubleshooting and performance analysis tools that raise the bar for the wider engineering org.
  • Track and report on escalation metrics, providing executive-level summaries and holding teams accountable to resolution timelines.
  • Help the CE team navigate competing priorities and align on strategies that move the needle for the business.


WHAT YOU BRING

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 8+ years in customer-facing or customer engineering roles.
  • Proven experience in large-scale, multi-tenant production environments.
  • Curiosity and fluency across modern AI tooling - MCP, A2A protocols, agentic frameworks - and a mindset for continuous learning in uncharted territory.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted SDLC tools (Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar).
  • Strong command of testing practices - unit, functional, and system integration - and agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban).
  • Solid experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
  • Deep understanding of APIs, enterprise integrations, and distributed systems.
  • Outstanding communication skills - equally comfortable in an engineering deep-dive and a customer executive briefing.
  • Experience in Identity & Access Management (IAM / IGA) strongly preferred; familiarity with Zero Trust, PAM, or governance frameworks is a meaningful plus.


$240,000 - $250,000 a year

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, learning and tremendous opportunities to grow and advance in your career. At Saviynt, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and final compensation decisions are dependent on many factors including but are not limited to location; skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other relevant business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $240,000 - $250,000 annually.
You may also be eligible to participate in a Saviynt discretionary bonus plan, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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

About Saviynt

Saviynt is a leading provider of cloud identity and access governance solutions. Saviynt enables enterprises to secure applications, data, and infrastructure in a single platform for Cloud (Office 365, AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Workday) and Enterprise (SAP, Oracle EBS). Saviynt is pioneering Identity 3.0 by integrating advanced risk analytics and intelligence with fine-grained privilege management. Top global brands leverage Saviynt technology. Saviynt is headquartered in Irvine, California with offices in Chicago, New York, Toronto, London, and Hyderabad, India.
Learn more about Saviynt
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2010

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