Staff Backend Software Engineer, Agent Platform

SentinelOne

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Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$156,000–$215,000 / yr
Posted
97 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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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.

SentinelOne currently has 34 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $179,700–$250,125 across 34 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Backend Software Engineer, Agent Platform

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Staff Backend Software Engineer - Agent Platform (Python/Go) joins the Agent Platform team to secure tens of millions of devices across Windows, Linux, and macOS. You will build and evolve high-throughput, highly available services responsible for policy, configuration, and command distribution to millions of agents worldwide. Your daily work involves driving rapid response to customer-critical incidents, performing systematic root-cause analysis, and designing large-scale, low-latency distributed systems processing billions of security events. You will utilize Go, Python, gRPC, REST, GraphQL, and Kafka to manage data layers including Redis, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and ClickHouse. The role requires operating services across AWS and GCP regions using Kubernetes, Docker, and ArgoCD to solve complex production challenges within an AI-native cybersecurity platform.

Skills

Go Python gRPC REST GraphQL Kafka Redis PostgreSQL Cassandra ClickHouse AWS GCP Kubernetes Docker ArgoCD Helm GitHub Distributed Systems

What you'll do

  • Diagnose, triage, and resolve complex production issues across multiple services in the Agent Platform.
  • Lead systematic root-cause analysis to implement durable improvements in reliability, scalability, and observability.
  • Design, develop, and operate high-volume, low-latency distributed systems processing millions of events per second.
  • Build and evolve high-availability services for policy, configuration, and command distribution to millions of agents.
  • Refactor existing services and develop new features to enhance architectural integrity and application stability.
  • Translate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, and operable technical solutions.
  • Monitor key metrics and improve operational visibility to maintain data integrity and system stability.
  • Evaluate and adopt new technologies to improve the platform's scalability and operational excellence.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
  • Deep expertise in at least one of Go or Python.
  • Proven ability to solve complex production incidents and perform systematic root-cause analysis.
  • Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with messaging systems and data platforms such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, or ClickHouse.
  • Excellent communication skills to collaborate across engineering teams and influence technical direction.
  • Experience in an enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity software company (preferred).

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