Manager, Infrastructure Engineering

Summary

Join SentinelOne's team as an experienced People Manager focused on Infrastructure Engineering, leading the Certified Component team responsible for designing, implementing, and ensuring the operational excellence of core data streaming, caching, and processing infrastructure. You will be instrumental in ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness of critical components powering SentinelOne's global platform. This role blends strong technical leadership with people management, fostering a high-performing team that builds and maintains foundational services for the entire engineering organization. The position offers a competitive benefits package, including stock options, bonuses, flexible time off, comprehensive insurance, and various work perks. Opportunities for professional development and a supportive work environment are also provided. The role is based in Prague (Karlin), Brno (Clubco), or remotely across CZ/SK, with flexible hybrid work options.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, with at least 2+ years in a leadership/management role of an infrastructure or SRE team
• Ability to manage distributed teams and define clear roadmaps
• Experience in Scrum/Agile-driven teams management. Sprint/Quarter planning, Priority assignment, and day-to-day operations. Experience with Jira is mandatory
• Expertise in data streaming/caching services like Apache Kafka and Redis: hands-on experience designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale Kafka/Redis clusters in production environments. Understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, topics, partitions, replicas), security (SSL, SASL, ACLs), and performance tuning.Familiarity with Redis data structures and use cases
• Cloud Expertise: Significant experience building and operating business-critical infrastructure services in at least one major public cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Understanding of Terraform for managing infrastructure resources
• Programming/Scripting Skills: Ability to code in Python, Go, or a similar high-level language for automation and tooling development
• Containerization and Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or similar) and Docker for deploying and managing services
• Observability: Practical experience building and operating modern monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Distributed Systems Knowledge: Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, data consistency, and fault tolerance
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Customer-Centric Mindset: A strong commitment to enabling other engineering teams and ensuring their success through reliable and performant infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Lead and Mentor: Manage, coach, and develop a team of highly skilled infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Strategic Vision: Define and execute the roadmap for SentinelOne's infrastructure, aligning it with the company's overall goals and product requirements
• Architect and Design: Oversee the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and resilient infrastructure services across our multi-cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure). Define the roadmap and vision of component evolution
• Operational Excellence: Manage the reliability, availability, performance, cost, and security of infrastructure data services. Work with the team to define and monitor SLOs, participate in managerial on-call rotations, and drive post-mortem analysis to implement lasting improvements. Ensure day-to-day operations' stability and excellence
• Automation and Tooling: Champion an "Infrastructure as Code" philosophy, leveraging IAC/GitOps tools (like Terraform/ArgoCD) to automate provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks, reducing toil and increasing efficiency. Drive and explore opportunities to reduce operational overhead by implementing automation and AI integration, which would help the team grow
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product engineering teams, SRE, and other infrastructure teams to understand their requirements, provide expert guidance on data streaming and caching best practices, and facilitate seamless adoption of core components
• Performance Optimization: Continuously optimize infrastructure services configurations, resource utilization, and underlying infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness at massive scale
• Troubleshooting and Incident Management: Lead the swift and effective resolution of complex technical incidents minimizing downtime and ensuring continuous system integrity
• Technology Evaluation: Stay abreast of industry trends, new technologies, and best practices in distributed messaging and caching systems, evaluating and recommending adoption where beneficial
• Documentation: Ensure comprehensive and up-to-date documentation of architecture, configurations, and operational procedures

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in Database management: Understanding of Database management core principles, experience with PostgreSQL and No-SQL
• Experience with other messaging systems or data stores (e.g., Pulsar, Cassandra, ClickHouse)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)

Benefits

• 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)