Staff Backend Software Engineer
SentinelOne
Staff Backend Software Engineer
SentinelOne
Builds security software for enterprise systems
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Primary responsibilities include:
Ideal candidates will have:
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
Time Off & Wellbeing
Insurance & Financial Security
Work Perks & Flexibility
Wellness & Lifestyle
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.
To learn more about how we use AI in our hiring process, please review our AI in Hiring Candidate Disclosure.
Base Salary Range 156000 - 215000 USD
Builds security software for enterprise systems
SentinelOne builds cybersecurity software for organizations that need to protect computers, cloud workloads, user identities and business use of AI. Its Singularity platform combines threat prevention, detection and response with shared security data so teams can monitor different parts of their environment from one console. Software agents watch activity on protected systems and can isolate threats, while cloud and identity tools extend coverage beyond employee devices. The company sells platform subscriptions and optional modules, priced mainly by protected agents, and supplies managed threat hunting and incident response services. SentinelOne was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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