At SentinelOne, we’re redefining cybersecurity by pushing the limits of what’s possible—leveraging AI-powered, data-driven innovation to stay ahead of tomorrow’s threats.
From building industry-leading products to cultivating an exceptional company culture, our core values guide everything we do. We’re looking for passionate individuals who thrive in collaborative environments and are eager to drive impact. If you’re excited about solving complex challenges in bold, innovative ways, we’d love to connect with you.
As a principal engineer, you will help design, build and operate high scale distributed systems that are near real time to be used in effective security products to detect and respond to threats. If you are a performance focussed engineer that knows how to build systems that stand the test of time and know how to iteratively build with quality and reliability, you will be at home in the organization. We value candor, collaboration, innovation, creativity, and technical excellence in our area.
You’ll work on globally deployed SaaS services across 6 AWS/GCP regions, that altogether process daily petabytes of data ingested and hundreds of billions of events from tens of millions of endpoints we protect at our enterprise & public sector clients across the globe, incl. 4 of Fortune 10 & hundreds of Global 2000 companies.
What will you do?- Architect the Future: You’ll lead the design and development of new services to tackle business problems and incorporate services oriented architecture that allow high scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
- Modernize the Stack: You’ll collaborate with teams to evaluate and implement the right tools, frameworks, and methodologies for building a robust microservices ecosystem. You’ll dive deep into our current architecture, challenge designs, and build new solutions to improve customer value in an iterative way.
- Hands-on Development: You’ll write high-quality, production-ready code.
- Mentor and Lead: You’ll guide and mentor other engineers, contribute to their professional growth, share best practices and architectural insights, and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
- Collaborate Across Teams and Orgs: You’ll partner with other engineering, product, design, quality, DevOps/Infra teams to align on objectives, design, timelines, and execution strategies.
- Technical Leadership: You’ll guide and shape engineering leadership’s technological vision and help align the vision to business outcomes
Our stack: Java, Go; Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, FedRAMP; GitHub Actions, ArgoCD; GitHub Enterprise; depending on the requirements of the service for communication, we use Kafka, REST API, GraphQL, gRPC etc.; Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse; Prometheus/Thanos, Grafana
What experience or knowledge should you bring?- 15+ years of extensive software engineering experience, including proven expertise in developing large-scale distributed systems and microservices architecture, with a focus on performance, scalability and reliability
- Experience in the transition from monolith to microservices is highly desirable.
- Proficiency in Java and/or Go, experience with Python is a plus
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and Kubernetes
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills and ability to articulate technical concepts and influence engineering direction across teams, departments and stakeholders
You will be joining a cutting-edge company where you will tackle extraordinary challenges and work with the very best in the industry.
- Medical, Vision, Dental, 401(k), Commuter, Health and Dependent FSA
- Unlimited PTO
- Industry-leading gender-neutral parental leave
- Paid Company Holidays
- Paid Sick Time
- Employee stock purchase program
- Disability and life insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Gym membership reimbursement
- Cell phone reimbursement
This U.S. role has a base pay range that will vary based on the location of the candidate. For some locations, a different pay range may apply. If so, this range will be provided to you during the recruiting process. You can also reach out to the recruiter with any questions.
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.
SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S. based roles.
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