Staff Backend Engineer (Go) - Detection & ResponseVerified as a real position
- Posted
Who we’re looking for
- 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
What you’ll do
- Design, develop (in Go cca 80% and partially 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.
About the position
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.
Benefits
- 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