Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer - Developer Platform

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.

Due to Federal Government contract requirement, U.S. Citizenship is required for this position.

FedRamp Staff may be subject to customer or third party background checks up to and including Secret Clearance if required by their role at SentinelOne.

What are we looking for?

At SentinelOne, we’re transforming the developer platform to offer a unified developer experience. To help us achieve that, we’re seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for a new key role that will drive this transformation and define the next generation of our platform.

• This is a high-impact role, where you’ll undertake an ambitious initiative to design and implement secure, scalable, reliable Developer Platform APIs built using modern technologies and approaches. This Developer Platform sits on top of our Infrastructure Platform, and its APIs must provide both a unified, customer-friendly developer experience and internal infrastructure service protection.

• You’ll need strong experience with Developer Platform fundamentals, including designing and developing infrastructure platform services that enable scalability, efficiency, and ease of use for internal developers. You should also bring deep proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and tools at a large scale, as this role will shape how services are built, deployed, and managed across SentinelOne.

• Strong ownership – In this role, you will work with multiple engineering and PM leaders and teams across the SentinelOne engineering organization on this re-architecture. We value collaboration, innovation, creativity, and technical excellence in our area.

• You’ll deal with the scale of globally deployed platform services across 6 AWS/GCP regions that altogether process petabytes of data daily and hundreds of billions of events from tens of millions of endpoints we protect at our enterprise & public sector clients across the globe, including 4 of the Fortune 10 and hundreds of Global 2000 companies.

If you are passionate about impactful, high-stakes projects, this is your opportunity to shine!

What will you do?

• Architect the Future: Dive deep into our current developer platform, identify pain points, and design innovative solutions to address them in an iterative way toward a shared vision. Lead the design and development of a new architecture that supports scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence.

• Modernize the Stack: Collaborate with teams to evaluate and implement the right tools, frameworks, and methodologies for building a robust, user-centric developer platform.

• Hands-on Development: Write high-quality, production-ready code.

• Mentor and Lead: Guide and mentor other engineers, contribute to their professional growth, share best practices and architectural insights, and foster a culture of engineering excellence. Your involvement enhances the overall quality, whether you wrote it directly, reviewed it, or contributed to its design.

• Collaborate Across Teams and Orgs: Partner with engineering, product, design, quality, DevOps/Infra teams, and leadership to align on objectives, design, timelines, and execution strategies.

Our stack: Java, Go; Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, FedRAMP; GitHub Actions, ArgoCD; GitHub Enterprise; depending on the requirements of the service for communication, we use Kafka, REST API, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.; Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse; Prometheus/Thanos, Grafana

What experience or knowledge should you bring?

• Extensive software engineering experience, including proven expertise in architecting large-scale distributed systems and microservices architectures, with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Expertise in Developer Platform fundamentals and infrastructure platform services design.

• Deep proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins) in large-scale environments.

• Proficiency in Java and/or Go; experience with Python is a plus.

• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and Kubernetes (K8s).

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Strong ownership and accountability, with proven experience driving large, impactful projects.

• Strong communication skills and ability to articulate technical concepts and influence engineering direction across teams, departments, and stakeholders in multiple time zones.

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.

• Medical, Vision, Dental, 401(k), Commuter, Health and Dependent FSA

• Unlimited PTO

• Industry-leading gender-neutral parental leave

• Paid Company Holidays

• Paid Sick Time

• Employee stock purchase program

• Disability and life insurance

• Employee assistance program

• Gym membership reimbursement

• Cell phone reimbursement

• Numerous company-sponsored events, including regular happy hours and team-building events

This U.S. role has a base pay range that will vary based on the location of the candidate. For some locations, a different pay range may apply. If so, this range will be provided to you during the recruiting process. You can also reach out to the recruiter with any questions.

Base Salary Range
$207,000—$253,000 USD

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.

SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S. based roles.