Staff Backend Software Engineer (Agent Platform, Go/Python)

SentinelOne, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

RSU program

Gym reimbursement

Unlimited time off

Parental leave

Volunteer time off

Paid holidays

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

401K

Team events

Town hall events

Job summary

SentinelOne, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Agent Platform to secure billions of events daily across Windows, Linux, and macOS. You will own high-scale services handling policy and command distribution for millions of agents worldwide.

You will drive incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and partner across teams to improve reliability and operability. Strong Go/Python skills and cloud/Kubernetes experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience with deep expertise in Go or Python.
• Experience with messaging systems and data platforms such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, ClickHouse, or similar technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems with an emphasis on reliability and observability.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with ability to influence technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response and systematic root-cause analysis across the Agent Platform.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate high-throughput distributed services.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability and operability through engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to drive cross-service improvements.

Skills

Reliability-focused mindset

Distributed systems expertise

Ownership and autonomy

Strong communication

Go

Python

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

Cassandra

ClickHouse

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

• As a Staff Software Engineer on the Agent Platform team, you will help secure tens of millions of devices across Windows, Linux, and macOS while processing billions of security events every day as part of SentinelOne’s Endpoint Protection product line
• You’ll help drive customer-critical incident response across the Agent Platform, rapidly build context across multiple platform services, and partner with engineering teams to continuously improve the platform’s reliability, operability, and scalability as a whole
• You will build and evolve the high-throughput, highly available services responsible for policy, configuration, and command distribution to millions of agents worldwide, while contributing to the agent platform protocols that enable other SentinelOne teams to deliver new security capabilities safely and at scale
• This role offers broad technical ownership, the opportunity to work across service boundaries, and the ability to influence the design and reliability of critical platform capabilities used throughout the Agent Platform at SentinelOne. You’ll solve some of the company’s most complex production challenges while helping shape the future of our platform
• 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
• Your Toolkit:
• Our backend services are primarily developed in with Go and Python also playing important roles
• We use gRPC, REST, GraphQL, and Kafka for service communication
• Our data layer includes Redis, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ClickHouse, and our own columnar time-series database
• Our services run across multiple AWS and GCP regions on Kubernetes, using Docker, GitHub, and ArgoCD
• We provide engineers with modern AI-powered tools to improve both engineering productivity and software quality

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employee assistance program
• Gym reimbursement
• Incentive-based challenges
• Mental health and mindfulness
• Unlimited Time Off
• Grandparent Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Paid Sick Time
• Paid Holidays
• 16 weeks Gender-Neutral Parental Leave
• Restricted Stock Unit Program
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401K
• Team building activities
• Celebrations and social gatherings
• Community volunteering events
• Global all hands and local town hall events

We are looking for an excellent software engineer with a reliability-first mindset who thrives on solving complex distributed systems challenges in production and turning those learnings into durable platform improvements and long-term engineering ownership Experience with messaging systems and data platforms such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, ClickHouse, or similar technologies 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 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 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 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 Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms, as well as Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes Demonstrated ability to quickly understand unfamiliar distributed systems, navigate large codebases, and troubleshoot complex failures across service boundaries 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience with deep expertise in at least one of Go or Python