Senior Backend Engineer (JAVA/Go)

About Us

SentinelOne is defining the future of cybersecurity through our XDR platform that automatically prevents, detects, and responds to threats in real-time. Singularity XDR ingests data and leverages our patented AI models to deliver autonomous protection. With SentinelOne, organizations gain full transparency into everything happening across the network at machine speed – to defeat every attack, at every stage of the threat lifecycle.

We are a values-driven team where names are known, results are rewarded, and friendships are formed. Trust, accountability, relentlessness, ingenuity, and OneSentinel define the pillars of our collaborative and unified global culture. We're looking for people that will drive team success and collaboration across SentinelOne. If you’re enthusiastic about innovative approaches to problem-solving, we would love to speak with you about joining our team!

About Your Role and the Team

Our mission is to elevate our Singularity Data-Lake security applications portfolio by introducing leading-edge solutions and features.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with the ability to lead features and inspire others. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing new functionalities for the Singularity Data-Lake products, which process several Petabytes of data daily.

If you are a versatile engineer with a sharp product sensibility, you'll have remarkable opportunities to directly influence how our customers utilize our platform for threat hunting and building cutting-edge threat intelligence solutions. Our roadmap includes an array of exciting new functionalities and ambitious cost and performance objectives to efficiently process vast amounts of data, all to the advantage of our customers.

What You'll Do

• Software Development (70-80% of the time):
  • Formulate and review technical specifications
  • Architect comprehensive backend solutions for complex features with loosely defined problem statements
  • Enhance the quality, stability, and security of the entire team's codebase
  • Conduct code reviews
  • Contribute to the on-call rotation, responding to and triaging production incidents
  • Assist team members in problem-solving, offer constructive feedback, and participate in daily scrum standups

Your Toolkit

Our new components are primarily developed in Go, with extensive use of Java and Python in our current backend environment. Communication between microservices is facilitated using gRPC, REST, GraphQL APIs, and Kafka, depending on specific requirements. We rely on Redis for caching and have our columnar time-series database for efficient event storage and retrieval at scale.

What You Should Have

• Proficiency in developing large-scale systems and a track record in architecting them
• Familiarity with AWS, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and GitHub
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, shaping best practices and driving their adoption
• 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

If you're excited about the evolving landscape of cybersecurity and aspire to make a tangible impact, join our team and contribute to shaping the future of digital security.

Why Us?

You will work on real-world problems and make an impact by protecting our customers from cyber threats. You will be joining a cutting-edge project and will be able to influence the architecture, design, and structure of our core platform. You will tackle extraordinary challenges and work with the very BEST in the industry.

On top of that, we offer you:

• Flexible working hours, with a hybrid model in Prague & nearby, and remote options in the rest of CZ or SK
• Generous employee stock plan in the form of RSUs (restricted stock units)
• Yearly bonus depending on the performance of the company
• Flexible Time Off and Paid Sick Days
• Global gender-neutral Parental Leave & Grandparent Leave
• Volunteering paid day off & Additional paid Company holidays
• Pension insurance contribution
• Premium Life Insurance
• Monthly Meal & Wellbeing Allowance
• Private medical care membership for you and your +1
• High-end MacBook or Windows laptop, Home-office-setup gear
• Udemy Business platform for Hard/Soft skills Training
• Above-standard referral bonus
• Attractive ESPP (employee stock purchase plan)
• Refreshments and snacks at the offices
• Optional company events
• DEI&B programs that promote employee resource groups