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As AI reshapes how organizations build, operate, and innovate, the responsibility to protect them becomes more critical than ever. When you join SentinelOne, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow. If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.\nAbout Us \nSentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.\nOur teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.\nWhat Are We Looking For?\nWe’re looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.\nAs 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.\nWe 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.\nYou’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.\nYou 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.\nThis 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.\nWhat Will You Do?\nPrimary responsibilities include:\nDrive rapid response to customer-critical incidents by diagnosing, triaging, and resolving complex production issues that span multiple services across the Agent Platform.\nLead systematic root-cause analysis and translate incident learnings into durable reliability, scalability, observability, and operability improvements.\nQuickly build a systems-level understanding of unfamiliar services and codebases, collaborating closely with engineering teams to resolve complex cross-service issues.\nDesign, develop, test, document, deploy, and operate large-scale, high-volume, low-latency distributed systems processing millions of events per second.\nUnderstand, maintain, and continuously improve existing services through refactoring, feature development, and architectural enhancements.\nMaintain application stability and data integrity by monitoring key metrics, improving operational visibility, and continuously strengthening the codebase.\nTranslate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, and operable technical solutions.\nPartner closely with engineering teams across SentinelOne to solve cross-functional problems, influence technical direction, and deliver solutions that scale.\nContinuously evaluate and adopt technologies that improve the platform’s scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.\nYour Toolkit\nOur backend services are primarily developed in with Go and Python also playing important roles.\nWe use gRPC, REST, GraphQL, and Kafka for service communication.\nOur data layer includes Redis, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ClickHouse, and our own columnar time-series database.\nOur services run across multiple AWS and GCP regions on Kubernetes, using Docker, GitHub, and ArgoCD.\nWe provide engineers with modern AI-powered tools to improve both engineering productivity and software quality.\nWhat Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring?\nIdeal candidates will have:\n8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience with deep expertise in at least one of Go orPython\nA 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.\nDemonstrated ability to quickly understand unfamiliar distributed systems, navigate large codebases, and troubleshoot complex failures across service boundaries.\nStrong 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.\nExperience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms, as well as Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes.\nExperience with messaging systems and data platforms such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, ClickHouse, or similar technologies.\nExcellent 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.\nA high degree of ownership, autonomy, curiosity, and the ability to drive ambiguous technical problems to successful outcomes.\nExperience in an enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity software company is highly desirable.\nWhy SentinelOne?\nAI is redefining how the world operates and rewriting the rules of security in real time, and SentinelOne was built for this moment. From day one, we architected an AI-native platform designed to operate at machine speed, not as an add-on to legacy systems but as the foundation itself. If you want to build where innovation and impact move together, this is that place.\nWe invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive, competitive benefits designed to support you and your family:\nEquity & Rewards\nRestricted Stock Units (RSUs)\nEmployee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)\nTime Off & Wellbeing\nFlexible time off\nPaid company holidays and paid sick time\nGender-neutral parental leave\nGrandparent leave\nInsurance & Financial Security\nMedical, dental, and vision coverage\n401(k) retirement plan with company match\nLife and disability insurance\nHealth and dependent care FSA\nVoluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness)\nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)\nARAG pre-paid legal\nNationwide pet insurance\nCancer Care program\nGlobal business travel medical insurance\nWork Perks & Flexibility\nHome office allowance\nMobile phone reimbursement\nWellness & Lifestyle\nWellness coach\nWellness/gym reimbursement\nFertility coverage\nAdoption & surrogacy reimbursement\nThis U.S. role has a base pay range that will vary based on the location of the candidate. 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