Staff Backend Engineer - Reliable, Scalable Go/Python

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Flexible time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Home office allowance

Mobile phone reimbursement

Wellness/wellbeing programs

Life and disability insurance

401(k) retirement plan with company 4%

Health, dental, vision coverage

Job summary

SentinelOne is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Agent Platform to secure tens of millions of devices across Windows, Linux, and macOS while processing billions of security events daily. You will own reliability and scale, partnering with multiple teams to drive robust platform improvements and incident response.

You’ll own both engineering and operational aspects, delivering durable solutions, improving observability, and shaping the platform’s design.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience with deep expertise in at least one of Go or Python.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand unfamiliar distributed systems, navigate large codebases, and troubleshoot complex failures across service boundaries.
• 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.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms, as well as 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, with the ability to work effectively across engineering teams, Product, Technical Account Managers, and other stakeholders, influence technical direction, and mentor fellow engineers.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Drive rapid response to customer-critical incidents by diagnosing, triaging, and resolving complex production issues that span multiple services across the Agent Platform.
• Lead systematic root-cause analysis and translate incident learnings into durable reliability, scalability, observability, and operability improvements.
• Quickly build a systems-level understanding of unfamiliar services and codebases, collaborating closely with engineering teams to resolve complex cross-service issues.
• Design, develop, test, document, deploy, and operate large-scale, high-volume, low-latency distributed systems processing millions of events per second.
• Understand, maintain, and continuously improve existing services through refactoring, feature development, and architectural enhancements.
• Maintain application stability and data integrity by monitoring key metrics, improving operational visibility, and continuously strengthening the codebase.
• Translate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, and operable technical solutions.
• Partner closely with engineering teams across SentinelOne to solve cross-functional problems, influence technical direction, and deliver solutions that scale.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt technologies that improve the platform’s scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.

Skills

Go

Python

Reliability-first mindset

Distributed systems

AWS/GCP

Docker/Kubernetes/Helm

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

Cassandra

ClickHouse

Tools

gRPC

REST

GraphQL

Kafka

Redis

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

ClickHouse

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Job description

SentinelOne is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Agent Platform to secure tens of millions of devices across Windows, Linux, and macOS while processing billions of security events daily. You will own reliability and scale, partnering with multiple teams to drive robust platform improvements and incident response.

You’ll own both engineering and operational aspects, delivering durable solutions, improving observability, and shaping the platform’s design.