[Hiring] Director, Software Engineering, Agent Platform @SentinelOne

Role Description

As a Director, Software Engineering, Agent Platform, you will be tasked with leading the Agent Platform organization, which owns the control plane that every SentinelOne agent depends on:

• Agent communication and configuration
• Agent management and health
• Detection services that turn agent telemetry into customer protection

This is a US-based role leading a distributed organization of roughly 45 engineers across four teams in the Czech Republic, Israel, India, and the United States. You will own delivery, operational health, and the customer- and executive-facing side of the domain in US business hours, and partner closely with the SaaS Platform architecture group driving the re-architecture of the platform.

This role requires candidates to be based in the EST or CST time zones, given the required overlap with globally distributed engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Typically 12 or more years in software engineering
• At least 3 years leading multiple teams through managers in a SaaS or cloud infrastructure environment
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Security domain experience, which is an advantage but not required

Requirements

• Distributed leadership: demonstrated success leading engineering teams across multiple time zones and cultures
• Operational ownership: experience running a high-availability SaaS platform in production
• Technical depth: a strong background in distributed backend systems at scale
• Executive and customer communication: ability to give leadership an accurate picture
• Delivery discipline: a track record of predictable execution
• People leadership: experience managing managers and hiring senior engineers
• Business judgement: ability to connect engineering investment to customer outcomes

Benefits

• Equity & Rewards
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Time Off & Wellbeing
• Flexible time off
• Paid company holidays and paid sick time
• Gender-neutral parental leave
• Grandparent leave
• Insurance & Financial Security
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Life and disability insurance
• Health and dependent care FSA
• Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• ARAG pre-paid legal
• Nationwide pet insurance
• Cancer Care program
• Global business travel medical insurance
• Work Perks & Flexibility
• Home office allowance
• Mobile phone reimbursement
• Wellness & Lifestyle
• Wellness coach
• Wellness/gym reimbursement
• Fertility coverage
• Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement