Staff Cloud Database Engineer, SentinelOne
Relational & NoSQL
$148-204k
Plus employee stock purchase program
More information about location
AI-powered enterprise cybersecurity platform
Job no longer available
AI-powered enterprise cybersecurity platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$148-204k
Plus employee stock purchase program
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give the advantage to those who secure our future.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 5+ years of experience as a DBA or Database Engineer in cloud-based environments
- Deep hands-on experience with managed relational services, including Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL) and GCP Cloud SQL / for PostgreSQL
- Hands-on experience managing and operating large-scale Cassandra clusters
- Proficiency in SQL and performance tuning, query analysis, and database monitoring
- Experience writing and maintaining Terraform code for database infrastructure
- Solid understanding of backup/restore strategies, replication, and high availability in managed DB services
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or equivalent) for automation and tooling
- Experience in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting operational and cost data to identify inefficiencies and prioritize optimization efforts
- Ability to use statistical and usage-based analysis to drive infrastructure decisions and focus engineering efforts where they deliver the most value
- Experience operating both relational and NoSQL databases in large-scale, multi-region environments
- Experience driving efficient and performance database solutions techniques for cloud databases
- Experience in detecting and fixing performance bottlenecks
- Exposure to Kubernetes-native database management or operators is a plus
- Comfortable collaborating across engineering, SRE, and platform teams
What the job involves
- We seek a Cloud Database Engineer with expertise in both relational databases (Amazon Aurora and GCP-hosted PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (Cassandra) to lead critical efforts in optimizing, scaling, and automating our cloud database infrastructure
- In this role, you will take ownership of high-scale, production-grade database environments, driving cost efficiency, performance, and operational excellence
- You will collaborate closely with platform, infrastructure, and FinOps teams to ensure our databases are secure, resilient, and cost-effective
- You will also define best practices and automation standards through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and partner with application teams to implement the plans
- Operate and optimize Aurora and GCP PostgreSQL DBs powering mission-critical, high-throughput workloads
- Manage and scale Cassandra clusters, ensuring high availability and performance for high-scale data flows and global platform availability
- Provide guidance on schema design, query optimization, and observability for both cloud-native relational and NoSQL workloads
- Identify cost-saving opportunities, reduce over-provisioning, and tune configurations for maximum efficiency across all database platforms
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) modules for repeatable and scalable database provisioning
- Design and implement backup, HA/DR, upgrade, and maintenance strategies for mission-critical systems
- Collaborate with engineering and FinOps teams to align provisioning and usage with business requirements
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: $801.1m
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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