Principal Architect

November 6

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SentinelOne

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Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

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.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Define the Future Architecture: Serve as the final authority and strategic driver for the company's platform architecture, ensuring it aligns with our long-term vision, supports massive scale, and accelerates the delivery of our AI, data, and security product roadmap • Platform & AI Integration: Lead the architectural design and evolution of our core platform components, focusing on seamless integration, high-performance data pipelines, and the operationalization of cutting-edge AI/ML capabilities into our threat detection and response engine • Executive Technical Steering: Provide decisive technical guidance to R&D, Product Management, and Executive Leadership on critical build-vs-buy decisions, technology investments, and architectural trade-offs that have significant business impact • Customer and Partner Leadership: Lead architecture and design discussions with key customers and partners, maximizing the reach and potential of our platform • Systemic Risk Reduction: Identify and architect solutions for the most pressing systemic security, performance, and scaling issues across our production environments (multi-cloud/hybrid); this includes evolving our cloud security posture, data governance model, and continuous delivery pipelines • Architecture Governance: Institute and champion a flexible, yet disciplined, set of architectural principles, standards, and patterns to ensure engineering velocity without compromising security, reliability, or cost-efficiency • Technology Scouting: Maintain expert-level awareness of emerging technologies, particularly in Generative AI, large-scale data processing, serverless/container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and cloud-native security, evaluating their potential to provide a competitive advantage • Engineering Elevation: Act as a hands-on mentor and technical thought leader, raising the architectural competence of senior engineers and architects across the organization • Cross-Functional Alignment: Drive architectural consensus and adoption across globally distributed teams within the Product and Technology teams (R&D, DevOps, Cloud Ops, Security, and Product) and with Go-to-Market teams (Partners, Systems Engineering) often bridging technical silos and resolving complex organizational dependencies

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in technical leadership roles, with 4+ years as a Principal Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent role in a global-scale SaaS or cybersecurity company • Deep expertise as a lead architect defining and evolving infrastructure, middleware, security, data, AI, and services architectures • Expertise in designing and operating large-scale, multi-region cloud security platforms (AWS required; exposure to GCP/Azure preferred) • Hands-on experience deploying AI/ML in production, including operationalizing models, LLM architectures, vector databases, and high-performance data pipelines • Extensive background in platform architecture: data lakes, microservices, APIs, and multi-tenant SaaS delivery models • Strong security background, with expertise in IAM, Zero Trust, and cryptographic controls • Exceptional communication skills, able to articulate complex technical strategies to executives and engineers alike • Advanced certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Security Specialty, or CISSP/CCSP • Experience in fast-scaling cybersecurity environments handling petabyte-scale telemetry and real-time threat analysis • Deep expertise in Kubernetes, CNCF technologies, and cloud-native security practices • Published thought leadership (patents, papers, or technical articles) in cloud architecture, AI, and/or cybersecurity

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental, 401(k), Commuter, Health and Dependent FSA • Unlimited PTO • Industry-leading gender-neutral parental leave • Paid company holidays • Paid sick time • Employee stock purchase program • Disability and life insurance • Employee assistance program • Gym membership reimbursement • Cell phone reimbursement • Numerous company-sponsored events including regular happy hours and team-building events