Associate Principal Software Engineer, AI Onboarding

Saviynt
US
Remote

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior software engineers comfortable with full-stack development and AI integration, working remotely in a multi-cloud environment.

Best fit for

  • Senior engineers with production experience in AI agent frameworks and full-stack web applications.
    — “6–10 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least one year building production web applications
  • Developers who prioritize code readability and maintainability across the stack.
    — “write code that your teammates can read without a walkthrough
  • Candidates comfortable designing for AI system failure modes and graceful degradation.
    — “designing for graceful degradation — all of which are particularly important in an agentic context

Things to consider

  • Expectation to own features end-to-end with light guidance at 3–5 years.
    — “At 3–5 years, we expect you to own a feature end-to-end with light guidance
  • Requires direct collaboration with product managers and designers on requirements.
    — “work directly with product managers and designers to refine requirements before writing a line of code

How to stand out

  • Showcase experience with human-in-the-loop approval patterns in AI systems.
    — “design approval gates that are substantive rather than ceremonial
  • Highlight multi-cloud deployment experience beyond basic familiarity.
    — “run seamlessly across major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Demonstrate concrete examples of improving codebases through peer review.
    — “participate in code review with the expectation that your feedback improves the codebase
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • Developed AI-based platform and onboarding experience
  • Contributed to shared platform layer
Typical background
Experience in software engineeringStrong background in AI and cloud technologies

Skills & requirements

Required

AI DevelopmentCloud PlatformsAPI DesignDatabase SchemaAgile Methodologies

Preferred

Machine LearningDevOps

Stack & domain

Aws BedrockGoogle AgentspaceSalesforce AgentforceCua AgentsLlmsAgentic FrameworksAdkLangchainFastapiSqlalchemyPostgreSQLTerraformAws CdkArm Templates

About the role

Original posting from Saviynt via Lever

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER 

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.Part of the team to build the Onboarding and AI Platform.The team builds an AI-based platform and onboarding experience for customers.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

You will build the Pilot Rail (the human-in-the-loop approval interface for AI-generated plans), execution wave UIs (step-by-step progress tracking for multi-day agent workflows), and the policy gap reporting surface. 

Also will be responsible for connector health APIs, IaC template generation endpoints, plan envelope management, and the approval chain service.

Across various products, you will contribute to the shared platform layer: the signed context packet format (the structured memory object passed between the human UI and the agent), the plan state machine (the lifecycle model for AI-generated plans from draft through approval to execution), the Pilot agent panel (the contextual guidance component embedded in every wizard and workflow), and the audit log service.

Work across multiple agent platforms like AWS Bedrock, Google AgentSpace, Salesforce AgentForce, building foundational solutions, using cloud, SAAS  and AI design patterns and technologies.

Use AI and Agents to secure AI, using CUA agents, various LLM’s, agentic frameworks like ADK, Langchain, among others. 

Design and develop secure, scalable, multi-tenant software solutions that run seamlessly across major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will design and build product features end-to-end, from the React component through the API route to the database schema. 

You will write clear, testable code and participate in code review with the expectation that your feedback improves the codebase, not just the PR. 

You will work directly with product managers and designers to refine requirements before writing a line of code, and you will flag ambiguities early rather than building on an assumption.

You will be responsible for the quality of your own work. That means writing unit and integration tests, monitoring the services you deploy, and fixing the bugs you introduce. It also means reading error logs, understanding the failure modes of the systems you build, and designing for graceful degradation — all of which are particularly important in an agentic context where the AI layer may be unavailable or return unexpected results.

You will contribute to the team's engineering standards: API design conventions, component patterns, state management approaches, and the shared vocabulary used across the codebase. You are not expected to define these standards alone, but you are expected to engage with them seriously.

At 3–5 years, we expect you to own a feature end-to-end with light guidance. You ask good questions before starting, surface blockers early, and deliver working software that meets the acceptance criteria. You write code that your teammates can read without a walkthrough. You fix your own bugs. You participate in design discussions and share your opinions, but you update them as you learn new information.

We do not expect you to architect the system, lead the team, or have opinions on every technology choice. We do expect you to be curious, to read the codebase before asking questions it can answer, and to take pride in the quality of what you ship.

WHAT YOU BRING

Required:

You have 6–10 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least one year building production web applications. You are comfortable working across the full stack and have a clear preference for writing code that other engineers can read and maintain.

Working with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock) or agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, or similar). 

You have experience building REST APIs in Python or a comparable language. You understand HTTP semantics, JWT authentication, and the basics of relational database design. 

You have written SQL queries, understand indexing at a conceptual level, and know when to reach for an ORM versus raw SQL.

You have worked with Git in a team environment — branching, pull requests, code review — and you understand why these practices exist. 

You have deployed code to a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP) at least once and have a basic understanding of what happens between `git push` and a user seeing your change.

Nice to have

On the frontend, you have solid working knowledge of React and TypeScript. You understand the component lifecycle, state management patterns, and the differences among local state, context, and server state. 

Understanding of the human-in-the-loop pattern in agentic systems — specifically, how to design approval gates that are substantive rather than ceremonial. 

You have built forms, tables, and multi-step workflows. You are familiar with REST API integration from the browser and know how to handle loading states, error states, and stale data gracefully.

Experience with WebSocket or Server-Sent Events for real-time UI updates. Familiarity with identity and access management concepts: SSO, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, JIT access, privileged access management. 

Experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, or PostgreSQL. Exposure to IaC tooling (Terraform, AWS CDK, ARM templates) from a developer perspective — you do not need to be an infrastructure engineer, but understanding what these templates do is useful context for the PAM work.

Source: Saviynt careers (Lever)

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