Saviynt · 8 hours ago
Distinguished Engineer, Cloud Architecture
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/StaffSaviynt is the most innovative cloud identity and access governance platform on the market, securing hundreds of millions of identities for large enterprises. They are seeking a Distinguished Engineer in the Cloud Architecture team to lead technical decisions and empower engineers while scaling their infrastructure.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesCyber SecurityEnterprise Software
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Understand and deeply focus on the real-world benefits your systems and products will have on our customers
Be driven by and have bias toward autonomy
Be driven by and have a bias toward execution
Be invested in the long term view
Possess engineering breadth and depth
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
Company
Saviynt
Saviynt offers an AI-based identity security platform that secures and governs all types of identities across digital ecosystems.
Founded in 2010
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (71)
2024 (75)
2023 (31)
2022 (86)
2021 (81)
2020 (45)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.07BKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsCarrick Capital Partners
2025-12-09Series B· $700M
2023-01-31Debt Financing· $205M
2021-09-20Private Equity· $130M
Leadership Team
Amit Saha
Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer
Sandipto Banerjee
COO, Saviynt Labs
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