Staff Software Engineer, Detection Platform

Our Purpose

At SentinelOne, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future. 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.

About Us

SentinelOne 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.

Our 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.

What Are We Looking For?

We’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.

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Detection Platform group, you will be tasked with being the technical authority responsible for defining and evolving the architecture of the cloud-native systems that power our AI SIEM detection, hunting, and response capabilities, including large-scale real-time detection engines, stateful detection engines, anomaly detections, ML pipelines, agentic SOC and threat-hunting capabilities. You will lead the design and execution of backend systems that process billions of events and several petabytes of data daily and serve tens of thousands of security specialists at enterprise and government customers worldwide. Your technical leadership will bridge long-term architectural strategy and high-velocity product delivery, and you will drive cross-team initiatives that shape how detection and response are built and operated across the group.

What Will You Do?

Primary responsibilities include:

• Architectural Vision: Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for the Detection Platform group, owning the architecture of the backend systems behind real-time hunting, detection, and response.
• System Design at Scale: Lead the design and implementation of highly available, low-latency, cloud-native services built to process several millions of events per second and petabytes of data, keeping them reliable and performant for the world’s largest enterprises and governments.
• AI-Native Engineering: Embed AI into our services to build agentic threat-hunting capabilities, and reshape how the group builds software by leveraging AI across the development process and raising the bar for how we design, review, and ship.
• Cross-Team Technical Leadership: Drive complex initiatives that span multiple teams to completion, align engineering, product, and design on technical direction, and act as a key stakeholder in cross-organizational architecture reviews.
• Requirements into Architecture: Turn vaguely specified, complex requirements into robust, scalable, operable end-to-end designs that fit the overall data architecture, and define the coding patterns and standards other teams build on.
• Operational Excellence: Champion engineering best practices across the group, including observability, performance optimization, and data integrity, and safeguard application stability by owning the key metrics, diagnostics, and incident-response processes that matter.
• Mentorship & Growth: Elevate the engineering bar as a recognized subject-matter expert whose input others seek out, mentoring other software engineers in the group and fostering a culture of technical excellence and accountability.

What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring?

Ideal candidates will have:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep production-level mastery of Go and/or Java (Python a plus), and a strong track record of building and operating high-scale distributed backend services.
• A track record of being a recognized subject-matter expert others seek out to review and elevate their designs, with a passion for building high-scale distributed systems.
• Platform thinking: proven experience building and evolving platforms, not just features, with a focus on API design (gRPC, REST), service boundaries, multi-tenancy, and shared infrastructure in a high-scale SaaS environment.
• Strong background in distributed data processing and microservices, building high-quality, scalable data products that handle millions of events per second.
• Deep experience with AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Cassandra, and ClickHouse.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI in the development process (e.g. AI coding assistants and agentic dev tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot) and a desire to reshape how a team builds software to better utilize AI.
• Experience embedding AI into production services, building agentic and LLM-powered capabilities. Familiarity with modern techniques such as agentic frameworks and orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), the Model Context Protocol (MCP), vector databases, prompt engineering, and evaluation and guardrail frameworks for reliable AI systems is a strong advantage.
• The ability to turn vaguely specified, complex requirements into efficient, future-proof end-to-end designs, and to drive multi-team initiatives and influence the engineering roadmap.
• Strategic communication: able to articulate complex technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including Product Management, Directors, and VPs.
• Ability to swiftly delve into new products, and to collaborate effectively with local and remote teams across time zones.
• Customer focus: you care about delivering value and want to hear directly from customers on how to evolve your systems.
• Previous experience developing security-related products is a strong advantage.

Why SentinelOne?

AI 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.

We invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive, competitive benefits designed to support you and your family:

Equity & Rewards

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Time Off & Wellbeing

• Competitive leave benefits
• Gender-neutral parental leave
• Employee Assistant Program
• Workout sessions and a Wellness App

Insurance & Financial Security

• Medical and insurance benefits
• Pension
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Work Perks & Flexibility

• Global home office allowance
• Mobile phone reimbursement
• Study Fund 

SentinelOne is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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