Saša Sarajlić was born in 1965 in Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Sarajevo in 1994, and passed the bar exam in 1999.

As a student, he started working in his father's law office in Gračanica, and after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995, he worked as the president of the Housing Commission in the Municipality of Gračanica until March 1996, when he was accepted as an intern at the Municipal Court in Gračanica.

In 1997, he returned to his father's law office, where he worked until February 1998, after which he worked as an inspector for blood crimes and crimes against international humanitarian law in the Tuzla Canton Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In the period from 2000 to 2004, he worked as a legal representative of the insurance company "Sarajevo - osiguranje" Tuzla branch, after which he was employed in the law office of Husein Salkanović in Živinice from July 2004.

He assumed the position of cantonal prosecutor of the Zenica-Doboj Canton on November 22, 2004, which he held until April 15, 2010, when he assumed the position of prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, where he was until May 9, 2022, when after being appointed by the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina on April 14, 2022, took up the duties of the federal prosecutor of the Federal Prosecutor's Office of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He was elected as a member of the HJPC of Bosnia and Herzegovina from among the prosecutors of the Federal Prosecutor's Office of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 14, 2022.