Principal Software Engineer, AI SIEM
SentinelOne2 months ago
Base Salary
$216k - $297k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build a system-wide mental model spanning data ingest and storage, query and retrieval, analyst workflows, and detection engines.
- Drive architectural decisions across the data platform, analyst experience, and detection engine pillars.
- Partner with engineering leads as a peer thought partner and influence through technical reasoning.
- Identify and prioritize cross-system architectural investments for engineering leadership and product.
- Prototype, review, and occasionally build connective components between system pillars.
- Establish technical standards for APIs, data contracts, and service boundaries.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers across teams.
- Represent overall system health in planning and leadership discussions.
Requirements
- 15 or more years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems.
- Direct experience in at least two of high-throughput data ingest/storage, query engines, or detection/rules systems.
- Demonstrated ability to reason at the architecture level and identify incorrect boundaries, overlapping responsibilities, and system gaps.
- Experience designing APIs and service contracts across teams and over multiple years.
- Ability to influence peer teams and senior engineers without a single clear chain of command.
- A four-year degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Familiarity with security operations concepts such as alerts, findings, assets, incidents, and detection rules is preferred.
- Experience with modern cloud infrastructure and data-intensive systems, including distributed storage, high-cardinality querying, and streaming pipelines, is preferred.
- Exposure to rule-based and ML/AI-driven detection approaches is a plus.
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Flexible time off, paid company holidays, paid sick time, gender-neutral parental leave, and grandparent leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) with company match; life and disability insurance; and health and dependent care FSA.
- Voluntary hospital, accident, and critical illness benefits, Employee Assistance Program, prepaid legal services, pet insurance, Cancer Care program, and global business travel medical insurance.
- Home office allowance and mobile phone reimbursement.
- Wellness coach, wellness/gym reimbursement, fertility coverage, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- This is a U.S. role with a location-dependent base pay range; the applicable range may be provided during recruiting.
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About SentinelOne
SentinelOne builds an AI-driven cybersecurity platform that provides endpoint protection, detection and response, XDR, cloud, and identity security for enterprises. Its Singularity platform is sold as subscription software and managed services to secure laptops, servers, containers, and cloud workloads with automated detection and remediation. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, SentinelOne is a public company listed on the NYSE following its 2021 IPO.