SentinelOne · Remote · New-York, United States
Join SentinelOne as a Staff Backend Software Engineer on the Agent Platform team. In this role, you will help secure millions of devices across various operating systems while processing billions of security events daily. You will drive incident response, build high-throughput services, and influence the design and reliability of critical platform capabilities. The position offers broad technical ownership and the opportunity to solve complex production challenges.
- We are looking for an excellent software engineer with a reliability-first mindset who thrives on solving complex distributed systems challenges in production and turning those learnings into durable platform improvements and long-term engineering ownership
- Experience with messaging systems and data platforms such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, ClickHouse, or similar technologies
- Strong hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a deep understanding of failure modes, performance trade-offs, resilience patterns, and operational excellence
- A high degree of ownership, autonomy, curiosity, and the ability to drive ambiguous technical problems to successful outcomes
- Experience in an enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity software company is highly desirable
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering teams, Product, Technical Account Managers, and other stakeholders, influence technical direction, and mentor fellow engineers
- A reliability-first mindset with a proven ability to solve complex production incidents, perform systematic root-cause analysis, and implement durable engineering solutions that prevent recurrence
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms, as well as Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes
- Demonstrated ability to quickly understand unfamiliar distributed systems, navigate large codebases, and troubleshoot complex failures across service boundaries
- 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience with deep expertise in at least one of Go or Python