Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

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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.

SentinelOne’s Data Platform team builds backend Data Platform services processing daily petabytes of data and trillions of events. This role focuses on Data Ingestion and processing and targets building a best-in-class SaaS solution used for threat hunting and threat intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Majority hands-on software development (70–80% of the time).
• Lead implementations of new specifications and large features/epics; write tests to cover new code or newly found issues.
• Implement with consistent coding patterns with a focus on stability and security.
• Review code and raise quality, stability and security across the team codebase.
• Provide technical guidance and meaningful feedback; understand broader patterns and downstream/upstream dependencies.
• Build and review technical specifications; document trade-offs and critical implementation details/pipelines.
• Deeply understand architecture of ingestion pipelines and connected features.
• Architect end-to-end solutions for complex features with loose problem definitions.
• Participate in support/on-call rotation; respond to and troubleshoot outage incidents and fix newly found issues.
• Help team members solve problems; provide feedback; attend weekly team syncs and provide daily standups in Slack.

Requirements / Skills

• Several years of experience designing and implementing high-scale distributed systems; passion for elegant and simple designs solving complex problems.
• Collaborative development approach: design discussions and code review.
• Experience ingesting and processing petabytes of data daily; addressing high-volume streaming challenges and scaling ingestion pipelines.
• Strong experience writing modern Java (primary), with familiarity or willingness to use Go and Python; openness to learning new paradigms (e.g., Rust).
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar streaming platforms at large scale.
• Deep understanding of technology trade-offs and cost implications to keep systems stable and scalable.
• Ability to identify and bring relevant improvements from literature into production when appropriate.
• Preferred: solid foundation building ingestion pipelines and solving high-volume streaming challenges.

Tools/technologies mentioned: Java (modern), Go, Python, AWS, GCP, FedRAMP, Kafka, Redis, S3, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub.

Benefits

• Salary starting from 5000 EUR/month. Annual bonus based on company performance, paid in two instalments. (Final base may be adjusted based on skills and experience.)
• Stock & bonuses: Restricted Stock Units with 4-year vesting, annual performance-based bonuses, employee stock purchase plan.
• Time off & well-being: Flexible Time Off plus standard 5 weeks vacation, flexible paid sick days, fully paid short-term sick/nursing leave, 16-week parental leave, grandparent leave, additional company holidays.
• Insurance & wellbeing: Pension insurance contribution, premium life insurance, global employee assistance program.
• Work perks: Monthly meal and well-being allowance, high-end MacBook/Windows laptop, work-from-home support, in-office refreshments, access to major co-working spaces.
• Growth & community: LinkedIn Learning, internal mentoring, educational support, referral bonuses, optional company events.
• Flexible working hours and the option to work remotely from anywhere in Slovakia; in Czechia candidates may work from modern offices in Prague or Brno.

SentinelOne is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S.-based roles.