Staff Software Engineer (Java) Endpoint Protection

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.

What Are We Looking For

Were looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business and we enable every team member regardless of role or level to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions experiment thoughtfully and apply what they learn to drive better faster smarter outcomes.

As a Staff Backend Engineer you will work on a highthroughput highly available agent configuration platform for exclusions policies and security controls safely delivering customer intent from the console to millions of agents worldwide and serving as the foundation for all consoledriven agent configuration. You will also be responsible for configuration processing and delivery pipelines that turn user and system changes into optimized payloads consumed by agents at a massive scale. As part of SentinelOnes main product line Endpoint Protection we secure tens of millions of devices across the globe running all kinds of OS (Windows Linux macOS) and process billions of security events every day.

What Will You Do

Primary responsibilities include:

• Design develop implement test document and operate largescale highvolume and lowlatency backend platform services that enable management of exclusions policies and security controls and can handle millions of configuration updates and agent requests per second.
• Translate business and functional requirements into robust scalable and operable configuration solutions that fit within our overall data and controlplane architecture.
• Maintain application stability and data integrity by defining and monitoring key metrics and SLOs (for example configuration delivery latency error rates configuration coverage) and continuously improving the codebase and architecture.
• Evolve existing configuration services and platforms through regular refactoring and decomposition while delivering incremental customer value.
• Collaborate closely with other engineering product and customerfacing teams to design configuration models and APIs that are flexible enough for new security use cases while safe and operable in production.
• Continuously learn and adopt new technologies and architectural patterns that help us scale configuration management to hundreds of millions of configurations and requests per second while keeping the system observable and operable.
• Mentor and grow the engineering team providing technical guidance conducting design reviews and fostering an environment of continuous learning and high-quality code standards.

What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring

Ideal candidates will have:

• Multiple years of professional backend development experience in Java as the primary language ideally complemented by experience with Go and/or Python.
• Ability to quickly dive into new products and understand their inner workings.
• Selfdriven individual who takes endtoend ownership.
• Experience with largescale highload distributed systems & performance.
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP managing containerized workloads via Kubernetes and Docker and building microservices with gRPC REST GraphQL APIs and Kafka backed by PostgreSQL and ClickHouse.
• Excellent communication skills you will be regularly in touch with Product Technical Account Managers (who provide feedback from clients) and other crossfunctional teams.

Why SentinelOne

AI is redefining how the world operates and rewriting the rules of security in real time and SentinelOne was built for this moment. From day one we architected an AI-native platform designed to operate at machine speed not as an add-on to legacy systems but as the foundation itself. If you want to build where innovation and impact move together this is that place.

We invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive competitive benefits designed to support you and your family:

• Enjoy flexible hybrid work in Prague (Karlin) Prague-based employees are required to work from the office at least two days per week.
• Stock & Bonuses: Grant of Restricted Stock Units with a 4-year vesting plan annual performance-based bonuses and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Time Off & Well-being: Flexible Time Off on top of the standard 5 weeks vacation flexible paid sick days fully paid Short Term Sick/Nursing Leave 16-week parental leave grandparent leave and additional company holidays.
• Insurance & Health: Pension Insurance Contribution Premium life insurance Private medical care (for you and 1) and a Global Employee Assistance Program.
• Work Perks: Monthly meal and well-being allowance high-end MacBook/Windows laptop work-from-home support and in-office refreshments.
• Growth & Community: LinkedIn Learning internal mentoring educational support generous referral bonuses and optional company events (sports BBQs charity).