Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Java/Python)

<div class="content-intro"><h3>About Us</h3> <p>At SentinelOne, we’re redefining cybersecurity by pushing the limits of what’s possible—leveraging AI-powered, data-driven innovation to stay ahead of tomorrow’s threats.</p> <p>From building industry-leading products to cultivating an exceptional company culture, our core values guide everything we do. We’re looking for passionate individuals who thrive in collaborative environments and are eager to drive impact. If you’re excited about solving complex challenges in bold, innovative ways, we’d love to connect with you.</p></div><p><strong>What are we looking for?</strong></p> <p>We're excited to expand our team with passionate and skilled backend engineers, who are interested in solving non-trivial scale and data problems with a unique blending of cloud, distributed systems, and software optimization techniques and services. The SDL team, as part of the <a href="https://sentinelone.com/platform/data-lake">Singularity Data Lake product line</a>, is responsible for Visualization layer and backend services.</p> <p>We're seeking a seasoned colleague, able to lead features/epics, inspire others as a Staff engineer, and lead technically. You will interact with engineers in and across the org, tech leads, architects, product management, sales, and marketing.</p> <p>Because our team’s work is closely tied to the user’s experience of our platform, your work will have an outsized impact on the company, on future customer-facing features, and on how customers leverage our platform in order to protect their business. If you thrive in an environment where collaboration, creativity, and technical excellence are valued, we're looking for you!</p> <p>You will be joining one of the fastest growing publicly-traded SaaS companies, with a mission of ‘Empowering the World to Run Securely’. Together through our SW, we will serve thousands of users from security teams at enterprise government customers across the globe (incl. 4 of Fortune 10 and hundreds of Global 2000), and protect tens of millions of endpoints, clouds identities.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What will you do? </strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Software Development (70-80% of your time; primarily Java Python)</strong><br>Dive deep into coding, turning innovative specs into reality. Write robust tests, tackle bugs with finesse, and ensure top-notch security in your code.</li> <li><strong>Collaboration</strong><br>Collaborate with cross-functional teams.</li> <li><strong>Code Review</strong><strong><br></strong>Champion code quality, security, and efficiency. Your keen eye for detail will guide you in reviewing and elevating our codebase.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Build and Review Technical Specifications</strong></p> <ul> <ul> <li>Deeply understand architecture of the SDL solution and connected features; Architect end-to-end solutions for complex features with loose problem definition</li> <li>Document trade-offs in solutions/implementations; Document critical implementation details/data structures; Review and provide feedback on other specs</li> <li>Provide guidance and meaningful feedback, understanding broader patterns and downstream and upstream dependencies</li> </ul> <li><strong>Support and On-Call Rotation</strong><br>Be a problem-solver. Respond to and troubleshoot outage incidents, and address security issues promptly.</li> <li><strong>Team Collaboration</strong><br>Be a team player. Assist your colleagues, share constructive feedback, and contribute to our weekly syncs and daily Slack standups.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Tools<br>Primarily Java Python; AWS GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Kafka, Redis, Jenkins, GitHub, and DataSet (we love to dogfood our own product and are very vocal customers of it). Occasionally Scala, Kotlin, Go, NodeJS</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What Do You Bring to the Table?</strong><strong><br></strong><em>We do not require a perfect match with everything below; however, the more this describes you, the better of ... (truncated, view full listing at source)