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About SentinelOne
SentinelOne is a cybersecurity company that provides an AI-powered extended detection and response (XDR) platform. Its Singularity platform delivers autonomous endpoint, cloud, and identity protection for enterprises.
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The Principal Software Engineer, AI SIEM joins the engineering team to oversee the architectural integrity of the AI SIEM platform. This role involves reasoning across data ingest, storage, query retrieval, analyst workflows, and detection engines to identify system gaps and redundancies. You will drive cross-team architectural decisions, establish technical standards for APIs and data contracts, and mentor senior engineers. Key responsibilities include prototyping connective tissue between pillars and prioritizing high-leverage investments. The ideal candidate possesses over 15 years of experience building large-scale distributed backend systems, specifically in high-throughput data ingest, query engines, or detection systems. You must demonstrate expertise in designing service contracts, managing streaming pipelines, and navigating high-cardinality querying. The work focuses on solving complex problems within security operations, including rule-based and ML-driven detection logic.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.
Build a mental model of the full system to identify architectural gaps and redundant efforts.
Drive cross-team architectural decisions regarding data enrichment, detection logic, and analyst workflows.
Partner with engineering leads as a peer thought partner to influence technical direction through reasoning.
Identify and prioritize high-leverage architectural investments for engineering leadership and product teams.
Prototype and build the connective tissue between system pillars that lack a single owner.
Establish cross-cutting technical standards for APIs, data contracts, and service boundaries.
Mentor senior and staff engineers to raise the bar for architectural thinking across the organization.
Translate system health and technical gaps into a strategic roadmap for leadership.
What we're looking for
Deep experience of 15 or more years building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems.
Direct experience in at least two of: high-throughput data ingest/storage, query engines, or detection/rules systems.
Demonstrated track record of reasoning about systems at the architecture level to identify boundaries, overlaps, and gaps.
Experience designing APIs and service contracts that maintain interoperability across multiple teams and years.
A four-year degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Familiarity with security operations concepts such as alerts, findings, assets, incidents, and detection rules (preferred).
Experience with modern cloud infrastructure and data-intensive systems (distributed storage, high-cardinality querying, streaming pipelines) (preferred).
Exposure to both rule-based and ML/AI-driven detection approaches (preferred).
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