Distinguished Engineer, Cloud Architecture

Posted:
1/23/2026, 1:36:39 AM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States ⋅ Los Angeles, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

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.

Saviynt is the most innovative cloud identity and access governance platform on the market.  We secure hundreds of millions of identities at many of the world’s largest enterprises, helping them transform their identity programs and protect their people, assets, and infrastructure.  We are growing aggressively and need senior cloud architects to help us scale our infrastructure.

As a Distinguished Engineer in the Cloud Architecture team, you will be an integral member of a small, high-performance/high-impact team responsible for compute, data storage and pipelines, and network architecture.  You are a hands-on technical leader writing design docs and code.  Successfully scaling our infrastructure requires not only making smart technical design decisions, but empowering our engineers to build upon and operate it.
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

Saviynt is an amazing place to work. We are a high-growth, Platform as a Service company focused on Identity Authority to power and protect the world at work. You will experience tremendous growth and learning opportunities through challenging yet rewarding work which directly impacts our customers, all within a welcoming and positive work environment. If you're resilient and enjoy working in a dynamic environment you belong with us!

Saviynt is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Saviynt

Website: http://www.saviynt.com/

Headquarter Location: El Segundo, California, United States

Employee Count: 501-1000

Year Founded: 2010

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Debt Financing

Industries: Cloud Data Services ⋅ Cyber Security ⋅ Enterprise Software ⋅ Information Technology