[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer @SentinelOne

Role Description

As a Staff Back-End Engineer, you will be tasked with building backend infrastructure for our AI security product, focused on monitoring AI assets, assessing risks, and delivering actionable insights. You will work in a fast-paced, innovative environment that requires agility, adaptability, and continuous iteration. Your work will also include enforcing security policies and ensuring safe, compliant AI deployment while contributing to the future of cybersecurity.

What Will You Do?

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable server-side applications and APIs.
• Implement and optimize database schemas, queries, and data storage solutions.
• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Work with cloud services (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP) to deploy and manage backend services.
• Contribute to the development of microservices architecture.
• Stay updated with emerging backend technologies and industry best practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development experience in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience with database management.
• Experience developing and integrating APIs, including designing and building RESTful APIs; familiarity with GraphQL is a plus.
• Experience designing and implementing microservices.
• Experience with scalability and performance optimization, including caching strategies, message queues, and large-scale, distributed architectures.
• Experience implementing authentication, authorization, and data protection mechanisms.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Communication and collaboration skills.

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

Company Description

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.