Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join SentinelOne, a leading cybersecurity company, as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team building core components of our SaaS platform. You will lead a distributed team, collaborate with product and design teams, drive architectural design decisions, and champion engineering excellence. This role requires strong Java and backend technology experience, proven leadership in scaling engineering teams, and experience with distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of cloud-native systems and modern infrastructure technologies. SentinelOne offers a competitive benefits package including stock options, bonuses, flexible time off, private medical care, and professional development opportunities. Work is flexible hybrid in Prague, Brno, or remotely across CZ/SK.

Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management experience with a track record of building and retaining high-performing teams
• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience; strong background in Java is highly preferred, with additional experience in languages like Go or Python a plus
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field (Master’s preferred)
• Strong organizational and project management skills; proven ability to drive large cross-functional initiatives
• Experience with agile development processes
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale, with attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability
• Solid understanding of cloud-native systems and modern infrastructure technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP)
• Excellent communication skills and experience working in a global, collaborative environment
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed team of software engineers responsible for building and maintaining the core components of our SaaS platform, including service orchestration, API layers, and backend microservices
• Collaborate closely with product management, UX design and architecture to shape the roadmap and deliver impactful, high-quality features and platform services
• Drive design decisions that improve the product architecture and proactively identify areas for technical improvement based on engineering insights
• Contribute to technical discussions, perform design and code reviews, and support your team with technical leadership and mentorship
• Champion engineering excellence by promoting best practices in design, testing, observability, performance, and operational reliability
• Scale the team by hiring top talent, nurturing a strong and inclusive team culture, and supporting individual growth and career development
• Work across departments and global time zones to ensure alignment, execution, and transparency in delivering cross-functional initiatives
• Operate at the scale of a global, cloud-native cybersecurity platform – deployed across six AWS/GCP regions, serving over a million users from enterprise and government security teams worldwide (including 4 of the Fortune 10 and hundreds of Global 2000 companies), protecting tens of millions of endpoints, and processing tens of billions of events daily

Benefits

• Grant of Restricted Stock Units with a 4-year vesting plan, annual performance-based bonuses, and an employee stock purchase plan
• 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
• Private medical care (for you and +1), premium life insurance, pension contribution, and a Global Employee Assistance Program
• Monthly meal and well-being allowance, high-end MacBook/Windows laptop, work-from-home support, and in-office refreshments
• LinkedIn Learning, internal mentoring, educational support, generous referral bonuses, and optional company events (sports, BBQs, charity)