Staff Backend Engineer, Agent Platform – Distributed Systems

SentinelOne; United States; Remote; USD 156,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Flexible time off

Company holidays

Paid sick time

Parental leave

Home office allowance

Mobile phone reimbursement

Wellness coach

Gym reimbursement

Fertility coverage

Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement

Job summary

SentinelOne is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Agent Platform to secure billions of events daily and drive reliability across large-scale distributed systems. You will own critical platform components, partner with multiple engineering teams, and influence design choices to improve scalability and operability.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering high-availability solutions in an enterprise SaaS/cybersecurity context.

Qualifications

• 8+ years backend software engineering experience in Go or Python.
• Reliability-first mindset with incident response and durable engineering solutions.
• Ability to understand unfamiliar distributed systems and troubleshoot across services.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with messaging and data platforms (Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, ClickHouse).
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams; strong ownership.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose, triage, and resolve complex production issues across the Agent Platform.
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement durable reliability improvements.
• Understand unfamiliar services and troubleshoot cross-service issues.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate large-scale distributed systems.
• Maintain stability and data integrity by monitoring metrics and improving visibility.
• Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with teams to drive cross-functional solutions that scale.
• Adopt technologies that improve scalability and operational excellence.

Skills

Go

Python

Reliability-first mindset

Distributed systems

AWS/GCP

Docker/Kubernetes

Kafka/PostgreSQL/Redis/Cassandra/Click

Communication & collaboration

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

ClickHouse

Job description

SentinelOne is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Agent Platform to secure billions of events daily and drive reliability across large-scale distributed systems. You will own critical platform components, partner with multiple engineering teams, and influence design choices to improve scalability and operability.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering high-availability solutions in an enterprise SaaS/cybersecurity context.