Director of Software Engineering, SentinelOne
Agent Platform
$206.3-309k
+ RSUs and ESPP
More information about location
AI-powered enterprise cybersecurity platform
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AI-powered enterprise cybersecurity platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$206.3-309k
+ RSUs and ESPP
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give the advantage to those who secure our future.
Role
Who you are
- Distributed leadership: demonstrated success leading engineering teams across multiple time zones and cultures, with concrete examples of how you made it work rather than worked around it, through clear ownership, strong written communication, deliberate overlap, and trust built without being in the same room
- Operational ownership: experience running a high-availability SaaS platform in production, including incident command, root cause discipline, SLOs, and turning a poor reliability trend around with data
- Technical depth: a strong background in distributed backend systems at scale, including cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, data stores and multi-tenancy, with the ability to hold a credible technical conversation with staff engineers and architects, and to tell a well-reasoned design from a weak one
- Executive and customer communication: the ability to give leadership an accurate picture, including when the accurate version is the worse-sounding one, and to represent engineering credibly in front of customers
- Delivery discipline: a track record of predictable execution, with clear ownership, planning that holds, and commitments that land
- People leadership: experience managing managers, hiring senior engineers, and raising the bar of an organization you inherited
- Business judgement: the ability to connect engineering investment to customer outcomes and to explain the trade-offs between reliability, re-architecture and new capability
- Typically 12 or more years in software engineering, with at least 3 years leading multiple teams through managers, in a SaaS or cloud infrastructure environment
- Security domain experience, which is an advantage but not required
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Director, Software Engineering, Agent Platform, you will be tasked with leading the Agent Platform organization, which owns the control plane that every SentinelOne agent depends on: agent communication and configuration, agent management and health, and the detection services that turn agent telemetry into customer protection
- When this platform is healthy, the rest of the product works; when it is not, customers feel it immediately
- This is a US-based role leading a distributed organization of roughly 45 engineers across four teams in the Czech Republic, Israel, India and the United States, where you will own delivery, operational health and the customer- and executive-facing side of the domain in US business hours, and partner closely with the SaaS Platform architecture group driving the re-architecture of the platform
- Own the domain end to end, including delivery, operational health, quality and roadmap commitments for the Agent Platform organization
- Drive reliability by continuing the reliability program already under way: reduce incident inflow, close corrective actions against a clock, and build the observability that catches problems before customers do
- Lead and grow managers: four engineering managers across three geographies report into this role. Develop them, hold a consistent bar, and build leadership depth in the organization
- Represent the domain to executives and customers, owning executive communication during incidents and in regular forums, and engaging directly with enterprise, MSSP and federal customers on platform questions
- Partner across the platform with the agent and endpoint organizations, the SaaS Platform architecture group, Product Management and SRE to land cross-domain outcomes
- Execute the re-architecture: the domain is part-way through moving from a monolithic control plane to a set of regional, horizontally scalable services, and onto a modern container-based deployment model. Own the delivery of that transition for your teams, while keeping the existing platform running for customers throughout
- Plan capacity and headcount, balancing reliability, re-architecture and feature delivery, and make the trade-offs explicit to Product and to leadership
- Build US presence by growing senior engineering capability in the US alongside the existing teams, so the domain has depth in US hours
- Deliver on what success looks like in the first year: incident inflow for the domain is materially lower and the trend is sustained, with corrective actions closing inside the target window rather than accumulating; leadership and customers get a clear, proactive picture of the domain's health, and problems surface from the team before they surface elsewhere; major milestones in the move to scalable, regionally deployed services and the modernisation of the deployment platform are delivered, without regressions visible to customers; the four teams operate predictably against their plans, and the managers are visibly stronger; and US senior engineering presence in the domain has grown
Our take
Cybercriminals are now leveraging the power of automation to make the current threat landscape too advanced for a lot of traditional antivirus software. SentinelOne is a cybersecurity company that matches this automation with machine learning-focused software designed to help businesses defend against online attacks.
The company has expanded beyond endpoint security into a broader AI-powered cybersecurity platform spanning endpoint, cloud, identity, and IT operations. This gives SentinelOne access to a larger enterprise market, although it also it also places the company in direct competitions with established cybersecurity leaders, including its biggest rival, CrowdStrike.
As cyberattacks become increasingly automated, the company is expanding its capabilities beyond detection to include AI-driven threat response, helping security teams contain attacks more quickly. While it still trails larger rival CrowdStrike in scale, SentinelOne is investing in platform expansion and automation to compete for enterprises looking to consolidate their cybersecurity into a single solution.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
61% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2021
$100m
LATE VC
Nov 2020
$267m
LATE VC
Total funding: $798.2m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee assistance program
- Gym reimbursement
- Incentive-based challenges
- Mental health and mindfulness
- Unlimited Time Off
- Grandparent Leave
- Volunteer Time Off
- Paid Sick Time
- Paid Holidays
- 16 weeks Gender-Neutral Parental Leave
- Restricted Stock Unit Program
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Team building activities
- Celebrations and social gatherings
- Community volunteering events
- Global all hands and local town hall events
- 401K
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Tomer Weingarten
(Co-Founder & CEO)Tomer began their career in Software Development at Mckit Systems prior to co-founding dPolls and Carambola Media. They left their position as VP of Products at Toluna in December 2012 to found SentinelOne in January 2013, where they have served as the CEO since.
Sonalee Parekh
(CFO)Prior to joining SentinelOne in 2026, Sonalee was the CFO at Asana and RingCentral. They also held senior roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Jefferies, RBC Capital, Markets, Barclays Capital and Goldman Sachs.
Barry Padgett
(COO & President)Barry joined SentinelOne in 2025 as CGO before briefly serving as the CFO then moving into their current role as COO. Previously they spent 4 years at Amperity as COO and CEO and 1 year at Stripe as CRO.
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