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Staff Backend Software Engineer - Agent Platform (Go/Python)

SentinelOne· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote)$156k - $215kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer on the Agent Platform team focusing on high-throughput, highly available services for policy, configuration, and command distribution to millions of agents; responsible for incident response, reliability, scalability, and collaboration across teams within SentinelOne’s AI-native Endpoint Protection platform.

Responsibilities

  • Drive rapid response to customer-critical incidents by diagnosing, triaging, and resolving complex production issues that span multiple services across the Agent Platform
  • Lead systematic root-cause analysis and translate incident learnings into durable reliability, scalability, observability, and operability improvements
  • Quickly build a systems-level understanding of unfamiliar services and codebases, collaborating closely with engineering teams to resolve complex cross-service issues
  • Design, develop, test, document, deploy, and operate large-scale, high-volume, low-latency distributed systems processing millions of events per second
  • Understand, maintain, and continuously improve existing services through refactoring, feature development, and architectural enhancements
  • Maintain application stability and data integrity by monitoring key metrics, improving operational visibility, and continuously strengthening the codebase
  • Translate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, and operable technical solutions
  • Partner closely with engineering teams across SentinelOne to solve cross-functional problems, influence technical direction, and deliver solutions that scale
  • Continuously evaluate and adopt technologies that improve the platform’s scalability, reliability, and operational excellence

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience with deep expertise in at least one of Go or Python
  • A reliability-first mindset with a proven ability to solve complex production incidents, perform systematic root-cause analysis, and implement durable engineering solutions that prevent recurrence
  • Demonstrated ability to quickly understand unfamiliar distributed systems, navigate large codebases, and troubleshoot complex failures across service boundaries
  • Strong hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a deep understanding of failure modes, performance trade-offs, resilience patterns, and operational excellence
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms, as well as Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes
  • Experience with messaging systems and data platforms such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, ClickHouse, or similar technologies
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering teams, Product, Technical Account Managers, and other stakeholders, influence technical direction, and mentor fellow engineers
  • A high degree of ownership, autonomy, curiosity, and the ability to drive ambiguous technical problems to successful outcomes
  • Experience in an enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity software company is highly desirable

Skills

Required:GoPythonDistributed systemsCloud platformsContainerizationMessaging/data platformsIncident response

Benefits

  • Equity & Rewards: RSUs, ESPP
  • Time Off & Wellbeing: Flexible time off, paid holidays, paid sick time, gender-neutral parental leave, grandparent leave
  • Insurance & Financial Security: Medical/dental/vision, 401(k) with match, life and disability insurance, health/dependent care FSA, voluntary benefits, EAP, legal plan, pet insurance, cancer care program, travel medical insurance
  • Work Perks & Flexibility: Home office allowance, mobile phone reimbursement
  • Wellness & Lifestyle: Wellness coach, gym reimbursement, fertility coverage, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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SentinelOne unifies AI-powered endpoint, cloud, identity, and data protection—enhanced by our Security Data Lake for seamless and efficient cybersecurity.

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