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Senior Software Engineer, Detection Platform

SentinelOne
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Hybrid (Global)$0Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer in the Detection Platform group focusing on designing and executing backend systems that process billions of events and petabytes of data daily for enterprise and government customers, with emphasis on Go/Java, scalability, observability, and cross-team collaboration in an AI-native security platform.

Responsibilities

  • Own the full lifecycle of large-scale production services - design, develop (mostly in Go and/or Java), test, deploy, and operate them while ensuring observability, performance, and reliability - from proactive monitoring and diagnostics through incident response.
  • Technical Evolution: Keep the existing codebase healthy through ongoing refactoring and disciplined delivery of fixes and features, while evaluating and adopting new technologies.
  • System Design at Scale: Design and implement highly available, low-latency, cloud-native services to process high volumes of events for large enterprises and governments.
  • AI-Native Engineering: Leverage AI across the development process and raise the bar for design, reviews, and shipping of products.
  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Drive complex initiatives spanning multiple teams and align engineering, product, and design on technical direction; participate in cross-organizational architecture reviews.
  • Requirements into Architecture: Transform vaguely specified, complex requirements into robust, scalable end-to-end designs; define coding patterns and standards.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with deep production-level mastery of Go and/or Java (Python a plus) and a track record of building and operating high-scale distributed backend services.
  • Past experience with AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres, Redis, Kafka.
  • Hands-on experience leveraging AI in the development process and familiarity with AI coding assistants and agentic dev tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot).
  • Ability to translate complex requirements into efficient end-to-end designs and drive multi-team initiatives and roadmap influence.
  • Strategic communication skills to articulate technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to quickly learn new products and collaborate across time zones with local and remote teams.
  • Customer focus and willingness to hear from customers to evolve systems.
  • Previous experience developing security-related products is a strong advantage.

Skills

Required:GoJavaAWSKubernetesDockerPostgreSQLRedisKafka
Nice to have:PythonGCP

Benefits

  • Equity & Rewards: Restricted Stock Units (RSUs); Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Time Off & Wellbeing: Competitive leave benefits; Gender-neutral parental leave; Employee Assistance Program; Workout sessions and Wellness App
  • Insurance & Financial Security: Medical and insurance benefits; Pension; Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Work Perks & Flexibility: Global home office allowance; Mobile phone reimbursement
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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