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

sentinellabs

United States

Remote

USD 156,000 - 215,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

equity awards

a stock purchase plan

flexible time off

paid holidays and sick time

parental leave

health and retirement benefits

wellness support

home office and mobile phone allowance

Job summary

sentinellabs is seeking an experienced engineer to develop and operate core services in an endpoint security agent platform that spans Windows, Linux, and macOS, handling tens of millions of devices and vast security event volumes.

You will combine hands-on distributed systems engineering with production incident response, focusing on reliable, scalable services for policy, configuration, and command delivery across the stack.

Qualifications

Strong software engineering with a reliability-first approach to production systems.
Troubleshoot complex distributed systems and lead incidents to resolution.
Learn unfamiliar services and coordinate fixes across teams.
Experience building or operating high-volume, highly available services.
Ownership, autonomy, curiosity to drive ambiguous technical problems to outcomes.

Responsibilities

Diagnose and resolve urgent production issues across multiple services, building context quickly across unfamiliar systems.
Lead root‑cause analysis and turn incident findings into lasting improvements to reliability, scalability, observability, and operations.
Design, build, test, document, deploy, and operate high‑throughput, low‑latency distributed services.
Maintain and improve existing services through refactoring, feature work, and architectural changes.
Monitor service health and strengthen operational visibility, stability, and data integrity.
Translate business needs into robust technical solutions and collaborate across engineering and stakeholder teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Incident response

High-availability services

Troubleshooting

Ownership

Learning unfamiliar services

Job description

Role overview

Develop and operate core services in an endpoint security agent platform that supports tens of millions of devices across Windows, Linux, and macOS and processes very large volumes of security events. The role combines hands‑on distributed systems engineering with production incident response, focusing on reliable, scalable services for policy, configuration, and command delivery.

Responsibilities

Diagnose and resolve urgent production issues spanning multiple services, building context quickly across unfamiliar systems.
Lead root‑cause analysis and turn incident findings into lasting improvements to reliability, scalability, observability, and operations.
Design, build, test, document, deploy, and operate high‑throughput, low‑latency distributed services.
Maintain and improve existing services through refactoring, feature work, and architectural changes.
Monitor service health and strengthen operational visibility, stability, and data integrity.
Translate business needs into robust technical solutions and collaborate across engineering and stakeholder teams.

Requirements

Strong software engineering experience with a reliability‑first approach to production systems.
Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems and lead incidents through resolution.
Skill in learning unfamiliar services and codebases and coordinating fixes across teams.
Experience building or operating high‑volume, highly available services.
Ownership, autonomy, curiosity, and ability to drive ambiguous technical problems to outcomes.

Nice to have

Experience in enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity software is desirable.

Benefits and work setup

The listing describes equity awards, a stock purchase plan, flexible time off, paid holidays and sick time, parental leave, health and retirement benefits, wellness support, and home office and mobile phone allowances. The U.S. base salary range is $156,000–$215,000, with variation by location.