[Hiring] Forward Deployed Engineer @SailPoint

Role Description

SailPoint is the leading, AI-driven security platform providing the autonomous governance that best solves the needs for the modern enterprise. By harnessing the power of AI and machine learning, SailPoint automates and streamlines the complexity of delivering the right access to the right identities and technology resources at the right time.

What You’ll Do:

• Operating at the intersection of Solution Engineering, Professional Services, and Product Management.
• Leverage state-of-the-art AI tooling alongside deep implementation expertise and industry knowledge to build foundational solutions, solve complex problems, accelerate our customers' time-to-value, and decrease the cost of traditional services.
• Partner with our sales organization by applying your technical abilities, problem-solving skills, and business acumen in support of SailPoint’s growth objectives.
• Undergo comprehensive product and sales training to harness existing experience and gain a profound understanding of our SaaS solutions and the challenges they solve for our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in the sales process and work closely with the direct and channel sales teams.
• Discover and understand customer requirements and align our solutions to those requirements, augmenting your expertise with AI tooling.
• Participate in onsite and remote foundational implementation engagements.
• Educate customers on high-level product architecture, functional design, and best practices.
• Assist in the analysis and documentation of customer requirements and how they map to SailPoint solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams like sales, solution engineering, product, professional services, and customer success to ensure a seamless customer experience.
• Collaborate with other Forward Deployed Engineering team members to design creative solutions to complex problems.
• Master Artificial Intelligence and Agentic technologies to solve customer problems.
• Contribute to building out Agentic technology solutions that become our standard for demonstrations of SailPoint’s products.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of professional work experience as part of an enterprise software company, systems integrator, or consulting firm; 3+ years of software implementation or pre-sales experience.
• Experience in software development, implementation, and configuration.
• Excellent communications skills and extensive experience working directly with clients and partners.
• A working knowledge of technical infrastructure including web services, application servers, databases, virtualization, and directories is required.
• Conversant in modern SaaS architecture.
• Experience with agentic coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, Google Antigravity, GitHub CoPilot, OpenAI Codex.
• Familiarity with Java, XML, LDAP, SQL, JSON, Azure/AWS/GCP is desirable.
• Experience with the following tech-stack: NodeJS, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular, React.js.

Requirements

• Preferred: 3+ years working with Identity, Governance and Access Management solutions.
• Experience with at least one of the following: SpringBoot, SpringMVC, XML, SPML/SOAP, web and application servers.
• Windows and Unix (Linux, Sun, HP, AIX) platforms.
• Relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL, MySQL).
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis).
• Directories (LDAP, AD).
• Java, BeanShell, JavaScript Node.js.
• Enterprise resource planning or service management systems (SAP, PeopleSoft, ServiceNow).
• Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Front-end language experience (HTML, CSS, Angular, React, Vue.js).
• Familiarity with SailPoint products and vendors such as Saviynt, RSA/Aveksa, One Identity, Oracle Identity Manager, etc.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning concepts.
• Experience with project management duties (project planning, resource management, scope, schedule and status, documentation).
• Experience with quality assurance duties (usability testing, performance testing, automated testing, test scripts, test cases and test plans).
• Security software or IT audit experience.

Education

• Computer Science degree, Engineering degree, or equivalent experience.
• J2EE certification and/or CISSP certification is a plus.
• SailPoint Certified Engineer or Solution Architect is a plus and is expected within 12 months of hire.

Travel

• This position may require up to 15% travel.

The Path to Success (Milestones)

• 1-Month Milestones: Undergo comprehensive product and sales training, harnessing existing experience to gain a profound understanding of SailPoint's SaaS solutions and the challenges they solve for customers.
• 2-Month Milestones: Begin participating in sales deals, leveraging product implementation expertise and client and partner communication skills.
• 3-Month Milestones: Be fully ramped on core tools and processes required for participating in sales deals and implementing foundational solutions.
• 6-Month Milestones: Serve as technical leads on customer engagements and establish themselves as both technical and consultative experts within the SailPoint Sales organization.

Benefits

• Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability.
• Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D).
• Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account.
• Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching.
• Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy.
• Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually.
• Sick leave.
• Parental support: Paid parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors.
• Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.