Senior Forward Deploy Engineer

Role Description

As a Senior 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.

What Will You Do?

• 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.
  • Produce the runbooks, integration docs, and executive-level technical communication that let customers operate independently.
• Upstream Contributions to the Core Product
  • Partner with platform teams to get contributions reviewed and supported long-term.
  • Build the tooling that codifies repeatable patterns and scales the whole Forward Deploy function.
• Build and Review Technical Specifications
  • Architect end-to-end solutions for complex problems with loose definition.
  • Document trade-offs and critical implementation details; review and provide meaningful feedback on other specs.
• Code Review
  • Champion code quality, security, and efficiency.
  • Guide in reviewing and elevating our codebase.
• Support and Team Collaboration
  • Respond to ad-hoc customer and internal escalations promptly.
  • Assist your colleagues, share constructive feedback, and contribute to weekly syncs and daily Slack standups.

Qualifications

• Solid computer science background with 4+ 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.

Requirements

• Deep proficiency in at least one production language (Java strongly preferred; 3+ years) and working comfort in at least one additional language.
• You value elegant code that is concise and readable.
• Experience in the cybersecurity domain is strongly preferred (think SIEM, EDR/XDR, log pipelines, detection engineering, threat hunting, etc.).
• Comfortable weighing in on CAP theorem considerations.

Benefits

• Equity & Rewards
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Time Off & Wellbeing
  • Flexible time off
  • Paid company holidays and paid sick time
  • Gender-neutral parental leave
  • Grandparent leave
• Insurance & Financial Security
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Health and dependent care FSA
  • Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness)
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • ARAG pre-paid legal
  • Nationwide pet insurance
  • Cancer Care program
  • Global business travel medical insurance
• Work Perks & Flexibility
  • Home office allowance
  • Mobile phone reimbursement
• Wellness & Lifestyle
  • Wellness coach
  • Wellness/gym reimbursement
  • Fertility coverage
  • Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement