Senior Backend Software Engineer – Agent Platform

🕒 August 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $132k - $182k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Drive rapid response to customer-critical incidents by diagnosing, triaging, and resolving complex production issues across the Agent Platform • Lead root-cause analysis and translate 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 • Maintain and improve existing 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, operable technical solutions • Partner with engineering teams across SentinelOne to solve cross-functional problems and influence technical direction • Evaluate and adopt technologies that improve scalability, reliability, and operational excellence

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience • Deep expertise in at least one of Java, Go, or Python, with willingness to work across all three • Reliability-first mindset and ability to resolve complex production incidents • Experience performing systematic root-cause analysis and implementing durable engineering solutions • Ability to understand unfamiliar distributed systems, navigate large codebases, and troubleshoot cross-service failures • Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems • 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, or ClickHouse • Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers • High ownership, autonomy, curiosity, and ability to drive ambiguous technical problems to successful outcomes • Enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity software experience is highly desirable

🏖️ 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