Senior Backend Software Engineer - Cloud Workload Security Team
About the role
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 Senior Backend Engineer you will help build our next-generation cloud workload security platform. You’ll lead the architecture, design, and development of a cloud-native system serving thousands of global customers and billions of daily events. This role involves building high-performance, real-time distributed systems and tackling complex scalability and optimization challenges at SentinelOne.
What will you do?
- Leading, designing, and developing SentinelOne’s cloud workload security offering using cutting-edge technologies and services.
- Participate in architecture, design, and technological research while considering costs, performance, scale, monitoring, etc.
- Collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders to execute the product roadmap.
- Work in a CI/CD environment
- Learn new technologies, mainly in the areas of complex distributed systems in the cloud.
Tech stack includes:
- Backend: Go, Python, Rust
- Data & Messaging: Kafka, SQL, and NoSQL databases
- Infrastructure & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure‑as‑code (such as Terraform).
- Cloud: Major public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring?
- Experience designing and building high-traffic, large-scale microservices and real‑time data pipelines with a critical focus on high availability, ultra‑low latency, and maintainability.
- Experience developing resilient, cloud-native solutions and real-time data pipelines.
- At least 5 years of experience with Python or Go
- Experience working with databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
- Proven experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Experience with Kubernetes - significant advantage
- Hands-on experience with React (or similar modern JavaScript framework) – strong plus
- Hands-on experience with Kafka (or equivalent streaming platform) – strong plus