Senior Backend Software Engineer, SentinelOne
Cloud Security
$128-165k
+ Employee stock purchase program
AI-powered enterprise cybersecurity platform
Job no longer available
AI-powered enterprise cybersecurity platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$128-165k
+ Employee stock purchase program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give the advantage to those who secure our future.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to join our Cloud Native Security team and help build scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-native applications
- Experience: Proven experience in backend development and cloud-native architectures
- Problem-Solving: Ability to design scalable solutions for high-volume event streams and mitigate security risks in real-time
- Collaboration: Excellent team collaboration and communication skills
- Innovation: A proactive approach to improving systems and driving SentinelOne's growth
- 5+ years of professional experience in backend programming, with strong skills in Go or Java
- Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) is highly desirable
- Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Experience working in a distributed or remote-first team is a plus
- Clear, concise communication skills
What the job involves
- Our AI security platform will handle hundreds of millions of events daily through a Kafka pipeline, integrating with various cloud providers
- Your responsibilities will include designing and integrating with multiple services to enrich data, enabling real-time detection of misconfigurations and potential security risks
- You will have a significant impact on SentinelOne's growth by contributing to a system that serves thousands of users and ensures robust security across diverse cloud environments
- You will work across the stack, developing backend services that integrate seamlessly into our systems
- We value a passion for learning, problem-solving, and building robust software
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java, Go, or Python; ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability
- Develop and maintain RESTful/GraphQL APIs for communication between FE, BE, and external services
- Work with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), Terraform, and tools like Docker, Helm and Kubernetes to deploy and manage services
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and security engineers to deliver high-quality features
- Participate in the full SDLC, from architecture and design to deployment and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)
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
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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: $797.9m
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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