Staff BE Software Engineer (Java/Go) - AI SIEM - STAR

About Us

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.

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.

What are we looking for?

Our mission is to enhance customer safety by advancing the detection and investigation capabilities within our AI SIEM product. We strive to provide robust, efficient, and scalable solutions that elevate the overall security posture of our clients

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join the team responsible for a leading, highly-valued product that focuses on real-time, cloud-based automated hunting, detection and response. This product, Storyline Active Response (STAR)., empowers our customers' security teams. They use it to proactively detect and respond to threats by managing platform detection rules, creating custom detection rules and deploying them in real-time across their entire network or a desired subset.

What will you Do?

Joining our expanding team, you will be instrumental in designing, architecting, and implementing a multi-disciplinary, cloud-native software platform. This platform will handle vast amounts of data, supporting thousands of users and processing hundreds of billions of events.

Design, develop, implement, test, document, and operate large-scale, high-volume and low latency applications that handle millions of events per second.
Translate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions that work well within the overall data architecture.
Participate and collaborate with cross functional teams in the organization to understand the business requirements and to deliver solutions that can scale.
Maintain application stability and data integrity by monitoring key metrics and improving codebase accordingly.
Understand & maintain existing codebase by regular re-factoring and applying requested fixes and features.
Learn new technologies that can solve our huge volume of data and the challenges it poses.

Your Toolkit:

Your stack: Golang, Java, Python, Kafka, Redis, AWS, GCP
Our new components are primarily developed in Go, we also use Python and Java in our current backend environment.
Communication between microservices is facilitated using gRPC, REST, GraphQL APIs and Kafka, depending on specific requirements.
Our architecture utilizes PostgreSQL for metadata management, complemented by a columnar time-series database. This combination enables efficient storage and retrieval of event data at scale.
What experience or knowledge should you bring?
8+ years of software engineering experience in at least one high-level programming language (Go, Java or Python)
Strong background in distributed data processing microservices, building high-quality, scalable data products
Familiarity with AWS, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and GitHub
Gain a rapid comprehension of the internal mechanisms of new products.
Proven capacity to collaborate effectively with both local and remote teams across various time zones
Excellent communication skills, as you'll regularly liaise with product and other engineering teams
A huge plus would be previous experience in developing security-related products
Why us?
You will be joining a cutting-edge company where you will tackle extraordinary challenges and work with the very best in the industry.
Study Funds- SentinelOne contributes 7.5% over your base salary (no tax ceiling is applied), and employees contribute 2.5% of their base salary
Pension fund- SentinelOne contributes to your pension fund according to local law. Pension contribution may vary based on the selected plan.
RSUs- 4 years vesting with 1-year cliff and then quarterly.
Annual bonus (depending on the performance of the company) paid out in 2 cycles
Employee Stock Purchase Plan- The plan enables employees to purchase SentinelOne stocks at discounted prices vs. market value. (the plan is subject to local taxation)
Company time off and holidays
Private medical insurance
Meal allowance
Home office allowance
Hybrid work model- The possibility of working both from the office and working from home
Parental Leave - Embracing a new child into the family is a unique moment for everyone! In support of that, we offer 20 weeks of fully paid leave for the birth parent and 12 weeks of paid leave for the non-birth parent
Employee Assistance Program- Psychological sessions with certified therapists to help you overcome stress, personal and professional challenges
Free Parking in our office building
Music Room fully equipped room
Wellness- workout sessions and a wellness app

SentinelOne is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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