Staff Backend Engineer (Go, Java) - Detection & Response

About the role

Our Purpose

At SentinelOne, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future. As AI reshapes how organizations build, operate, and innovate, the responsibility to protect them becomes more critical than ever. When you join SentinelOne, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow. If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.

About Us

SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.

Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.

What Are We Looking For?

We’re looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.

As a Staff Software Engineer to join our team that is behind one of our leading and differentiated AI SIEM product capabilities, STAR™ - Storyline Active Response , highly appreciated by customers (as well as praised in cyber reddit) - responsible for real-time cloud-based automated hunting, detection, & response. It empowers security teams of our customers to create custom detection & response rules, and deploy them in real-time to the entire network or desired subset, to proactively detect & respond to threats.

What will you do?

Primary responsibilities include :

Design, develop (primarily in Go and partially also in in Java), implement, test, document, and operate large-scale, high-volume and low latency applications, built to handle several 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.

What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring?

Ideal candidates will have:

You are passionate about building high-scale distributed systems

You care about delivering customer value and want to hear directly from your customers on how to improve and evolve your applications

You enjoy a collaborative development process using design discussions and code review

Multiple years of software engineering experience in at least one high-level programming language (Golang and/or Java)

Strong background in distributed data processing microservices, building high-quality, scalable data products

Familiarity with AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka (big advantage)

Ability to swiftly delve into new products and comprehend their inner workings

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 SentinelOne?

AI is redefining how the world operates and rewriting the rules of security in real time, and SentinelOne was built for this moment. From day one, we architected an AI-native platform designed to operate at machine speed, not as an add-on to legacy systems but as the foundation itself. If you want to build where innovation and impact move together, this is that place.

We invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive, competitive benefits designed to support you and your family:

Equity & Rewards

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Time Off & Wellbeing

Competitive leave benefits

Gender-neutral parental leave

Insurance & Financial Security

Medical and insurance benefits

Pension

Work Perks & Flexibility

Global home office allowance

Wellness & Lifestyle

Wellbeing allowance

MultiSport benefit program

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.