Senior Backend Software Engineer - Cloud Workload Security Team

Our Purpose

At SentinelOne, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future. As AI reshapes how organizations build, operate, and innovate, the responsibility to protect them becomes more critical than ever. When you join SentinelOne, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow. If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.

About Us

SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.

Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.

What Are We Looking For?

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.

As a Senior Backend Engineer you will help build our next-generation cloud workload security platform. You’ll lead the architecture, design, and development of a cloud-native system serving thousands of global customers and billions of daily events. This role involves building high-performance, real-time distributed systems and tackling complex scalability and optimization challenges at SentinelOne.

What will you do?

• Leading, designing, and developing SentinelOne’s cloud workload security offering using cutting-edge technologies and services.


• Participate in architecture, design, and technological research while considering costs, performance, scale, monitoring, etc.


• Collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders to execute the product roadmap.


• Work in a CI/CD environment 


• Learn new technologies, mainly in the areas of complex distributed systems in the cloud.

Tech stack includes:

• Backend: Go, Python, Rust


• Data & Messaging: Kafka, SQL, and NoSQL databases


• Infrastructure & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure‑as‑code (such as Terraform).


• Cloud: Major public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)

What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring?

• Experience designing and building high-traffic, large-scale microservices and real‑time data pipelines with a critical focus on high availability, ultra‑low latency, and maintainability.


• Experience developing resilient, cloud-native solutions and real-time data pipelines.


• At least 5 years of experience with Python or Go


• Experience working with databases (both SQL and NoSQL)


• Proven experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).


• Experience with Kubernetes - significant advantage


• Hands-on experience with React (or similar modern JavaScript framework) – strong plus


• Hands-on experience with Kafka (or equivalent streaming platform) – strong plus


• Hands-on experience with IAC (such as Terraform, or equivalent streaming platform) – strong plus


• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns


• Self-driven, motivated, and independent with excellent communication skills.


• Ability to quickly dive into new products and understand their inner workings


• A degree in Computer Science/Software engineering, or comparable experience