Staff Forward Deploy Engineer, SentinelOne
Full Stack, Java/React
$156-215k
+ Restricted Stock Units & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
AI-powered enterprise cybersecurity platform
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AI-powered enterprise cybersecurity platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$156-215k
+ Restricted Stock Units & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give the advantage to those who secure our future.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- We're seeking a seasoned colleague, able to own customer engagements end-to-end, inspire others as a Staff Forward Deploy Engineer, and lead technically across unfamiliar codebases and messy problem spaces
- We do not require a perfect match with everything below; however, the more this describes you, the better of a fit you will be for this role
- Solid computer science background with 6+ years engineering experience including both backend and frontend
- Proven expertise designing and operating distributed systems or data-intensive services
- Track record of leading substantial pieces of work end-to-end, under ambiguity, with multiple stakeholders
- Experience working directly with customers or senior stakeholders to shape technical solutions
- Deep proficiency in at least one production language (Java strongly preferred; 5+ years) and working comfort in at least one additional language
- You value elegant code that is concise and readable
- You'll pick up new tools and codebases as the work demands, and will likely end up working with modern Java, React, TypeScript, Kafka, Redis, GraphQL, Node.js, SentinelOne's own platform, and more
- You enjoy writing modern Java (we love lambdas) and prefer composition to inheritance
- You're comfortable weighing in on CAP theorem considerations, and are energized by selecting the data structure with the perfect trade-offs for a problem at hand
- Experience in the cybersecurity domain is strongly preferred. (think SIEM, EDR/XDR, log pipelines, detection engineering, threat hunting, etc.)
- You're energized by walking into an unfamiliar codebase and being genuinely useful in a week, and by leading others through the same kind of work
- You believe a vague customer request is an interesting technical problem waiting to be reframed, and that "a problem well-stated is half-solved."
- You can translate between engineers and non-engineers (customers, executives, sales, product, etc.) without losing precision in either direction
- You'd rather ship a well-thought-out 80% that solves the real problem than a perfect 100% six weeks late. And you can teach others when to customize for one customer versus producing a general solution
- You take mentorship seriously and enjoy seeing other engineers grow in their ability to solve harder problems
- You take pride in clear written communication — tickets, design docs, customer runbooks, and executive briefings alike
What the job involves
- As a Staff Forward Deploy Engineer at SentinelOne, you will sit at the intersection of our customers and our product
- Your time splits between customer engineering teams and our own codebases– shipping the integrations, fixes, and platform improvements customer deployments require
- Your work will touch many products and services across the company including our data pipeline and the Singularity Data Lake and EventDB (our highly scalable columnar database that ingests Petabytes of data per day)
- You'll work closely with customers to understand their environments, translate ambiguous requirements into shipped solutions, and build integrations, customizations, and upstream product contributions that unlock real business value
- You will interact with engineers in and across the org, tech leads, architects, product management, sales, and customer executive stakeholders
- Software Development (fullstack; primarily React/Java)
- Dive deep into coding, turning customer requirements and product gaps into shipped solutions. Write robust tests, tackle bugs with finesse, and ensure top-notch security in your code. Expect to move between codebases regularly, including on escalated issues that span multiple products
- Customer Engagement and Requirements Gathering
- Partner with customers and our field teams to understand customer environments, goals, and constraints. Turn loose, ambiguous (possibly contradictory!) asks into a clear technical strategy. Carry field learnings back into product and engineering planning while advocating for what customers need. Occasionally support pre-sales scoping where early engineering input shapes a good outcome
- Customer Integrations, Deployments, and Enablement
- Own the design and delivery of integrations that connect SentinelOne products into customer environments. Often this is work you will do alongside the customer's engineers, shaping both the solution and the knowledge transfer that goes with it. Produce the runbooks, integration docs, and executive-level technical communication that let customers operate independently
- Upstream Contributions to the Core Product
- When something needs fixing or improving in the core platform to make a customer whole, you go do it. Partner with platform teams to get contributions reviewed and supported long-term, and know when to invest in the long-term fix versus the near-term unblock. Along the way, build the tooling that codifies repeatable patterns and scales the whole Forward Deploy function
- Technical Leadership and Mentorship
- Raise the bar for the Forward Deploy Engineering team. Mentor Senior Forward Deploy Engineers, set standards for how engagements are scoped and delivered, and shape how the team operates as it grows
- Build and Review Technical Specifications
- Architect end-to-end solutions for complex problems with loose definition, sometimes spanning multiple codebases and owning teams. Document trade-offs and critical implementation details; review and provide meaningful feedback on other specs, understanding broader patterns and downstream/upstream dependencies
- Code Review
- Champion code quality, security, and efficiency. Your keen eye for detail will guide you in reviewing and elevating our codebase– including the codebases you're visiting
- Support and Team Collaboration
- Respond to ad-hoc customer and internal escalations promptly (no regular on-call rotation). Assist your colleagues, share constructive feedback, and contribute to weekly syncs and daily Slack standups
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: $799.3m
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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