Staff Backend Software Engineer – Agent Platform, Go/Python

🕒 August 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $156k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

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SentinelOne

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

SentinelOne is a leader in autonomous cybersecurity, known for its innovative use of AI across endpoint, cloud, and identity protection solutions. It is recognized by Gartner as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms for four consecutive years. SentinelOne's Singularity platform integrates enterprise security, offering features like AI-powered threat detection, endpoint and cloud security, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence. The company supports various industries by delivering real-time protection and operational efficiency while leveraging AI for advanced threat hunting and log analytics. With a strong focus on reducing risk and enhancing security performance, SentinelOne caters to enterprises worldwide with secure, scalable solutions.

📋 Description

• Secure tens of millions of devices across Windows, Linux, and macOS while processing billions of security events daily • Drive rapid response to customer-critical incidents by diagnosing, triaging, and resolving complex production issues across Agent Platform services • Lead root-cause analysis and convert incident learnings into reliability, scalability, observability, and operability improvements • Build systems-level understanding of unfamiliar services and codebases • Design, develop, test, document, deploy, and operate large-scale, high-volume, low-latency distributed systems processing millions of events per second • Maintain and improve services through refactoring, feature development, and architectural enhancements • Monitor key metrics, improve operational visibility, and strengthen application stability and data integrity • Translate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, and operable technical solutions • Partner with engineering teams across SentinelOne to solve cross-functional problems, influence technical direction, and deliver scalable solutions • Evaluate and adopt technologies that improve platform scalability, reliability, and operational excellence • Contribute to agent platform protocols enabling new security capabilities to be delivered safely at scale

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience • Deep expertise in at least one of Go or Python • Reliability-first mindset with proven ability to solve complex production incidents, perform systematic root-cause analysis, and implement durable engineering solutions • Ability to understand unfamiliar distributed systems, navigate large codebases, and troubleshoot failures across service boundaries • Strong hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems • Deep understanding of failure modes, performance trade-offs, resilience patterns, and operational excellence • Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms • Experience with Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes • Experience with messaging systems and data platforms such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, ClickHouse, or similar technologies • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Ability to work across engineering teams, Product, Technical Account Managers, and other stakeholders • Ability to influence technical direction and mentor fellow engineers • High degree of ownership, autonomy, and curiosity • Ability to drive ambiguous technical problems to successful outcomes • Experience in an enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity software company is highly desirable • U.S. work authorization context: SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S.-based roles

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) • Flexible time off • Paid company holidays and paid sick time • Gender-neutral parental leave • Grandparent leave • Medical, dental, and vision coverage • 401(k) retirement plan with company match • Life and disability insurance • Health and dependent care FSA • Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness) • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • ARAG pre-paid legal • Nationwide pet insurance • Cancer Care program • Global business travel medical insurance • Home office allowance • Mobile phone reimbursement • Wellness coach • Wellness/gym reimbursement • Fertility coverage • Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement