Principal Software Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Saviynt’s AI-powered identity platform manages and governs human and non-human access to all of an organization’s applications, data, and business processes. Customers trust Saviynt to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, Saviynt is today helping organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI. Saviynt is recognized as the leader in identity security, with solutions that protect and empower the world’s leading brands, Fortune 500 companies and government institutions. For more information, please visit www.saviynt.com.

This is a Principal position within the Platform Engineering organization. Our core mission is to build the foundational, core common layer across Saviynt engineering, consolidating and centralizing scattered platform tools, workflows, and infrastructure primitives. Wearing a dedicated Platform Engineering hat, this role will proactively find opportunities to eliminate operational friction and standardize capabilities into a seamless, unified developer experience.

A primary focus of this role is designing, developing, implementing, rolling out, and supporting our Internal Developer Platform (IDP), fitting all foundational tooling into a cohesive, self-service ecosystem. You will build and implement “golden paths” for developers, creating self-serve platforms embedded with essential security and operational guardrails. Crucially, you will act as a partner across engineering—working closely with developers, Embedded SREs (E-SREs), and Central SRE teams—while actively evangelizing platform products to accelerate adoption throughout the organization.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 12+ Years of experience across the Software Development lifecycle with a focus on platform engineering, DevOps, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Proven IDP build experience: you have shipped or significantly contributed to a Backstage or Port portal (or equivalent) used in production.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise across EKS and AKS, including multi-tenant cluster design, Helm, Kustomize, and Crossplane.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS fleet management, cell-based architectures, and ring/canary deployment strategies.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or Python for building production-grade CLIs, custom operators, or platform backends.
• GitLab CI + ArgoCD / Argo Rollouts pipeline implementation experience—building CI/CD-as-a-service for engineering teams.
• Terraform / OpenTofu module authoring at scale—module registry design, state management, and refactoring large IaC codebases.
• Background in developing Backstage plugins or contributing to open-source developer platform ecosystems.
• Practical application of workload identity, SPIFFE/IRSA, and cloud-native zero-trust network architectures.
• Implementation of OPA/Gatekeeper/Kyverno for policy-as-code within production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
• Proficiency in FinOps methodologies and tools such as Kubecost or cloud cost exposure APIs.
• Experience managing Kafka or AWS MSK as a multi-tenant platform capability.
• Proven platform-first mindset with a history of centralizing scattered tooling into core foundation layers, evangelizing platform adoption, and collaborating effectively across developers, Embedded SREs, and Central SREs.
• Professional exposure to identity security frameworks, SaaS delivery, and high-compliance operational environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP).

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Internal Developer Platform (IDP) & Developer Portal

• Take ownership of key aspects of the IDP architectural lifecycle, from service catalog creation to automated, self-service environment provisioning.
• Construct and manage a centralized developer hub featuring TechDocs, software catalogs, and seamless integrations with GitLab, Jira, and cloud management consoles.
• Develop and implement “golden-path” templates to rapidly deploy new microservices equipped with Kubernetes configurations, observability tools, and automated security guardrails.
• Champion and evangelize the adoption of platform products across engineering units using developer feedback, usage analytics, and active outreach.

Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture & Fleet Operations

• Design and support cell-based deployment patterns and progressive ring-deployment strategies across multi-tenant and single-tenant customer fleets to isolate tenant workloads and limit b…