Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Summary

Join SentinelOne, a rapidly growing cybersecurity company, as a Senior Staff Engineer. You will build new features for our Security Data Lake product, handling petabytes of data daily. This role requires strong Java proficiency (6+ years), expertise in distributed systems, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. You will lead technical initiatives, conduct code reviews, and contribute to architectural decisions. SentinelOne offers competitive compensation, including a salary from 6000 EUR/month, a yearly bonus, flexible working hours, remote work options, generous stock options, and various other benefits such as meal and wellbeing allowances, flexible time off, parental leave, and professional development opportunities. The ideal candidate possesses a collaborative mindset, a passion for problem-solving, and a proven track record in software engineering.

Requirements

• Solid computer science/software engineering/similar background with 8+ years of practical engineering experience
• Proven expertise in designing and operating distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in Java (6+ years of experience)

Responsibilities

• Dive deep into coding, turning innovative specs into reality
• Write robust tests, tackle bugs with finesse, and ensure top-notch security in your code
• Lead technical initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Champion code quality, security, and efficiency
• Review and elevate our codebase
• Drive architectural decisions and provide technical guidance in the development of solutions
• Articulate the rationale behind your technical choices and document key implementation details
• Engage in thoughtful discussions, providing and receiving insightful feedback on specifications
• Be a problem-solver
• Respond to and troubleshoot outage incidents, and address security issues promptly
• Be a team player
• Assist your colleagues, share constructive feedback, and contribute to our weekly syncs and daily Slack standups

Preferred Qualifications

• Have you used tools like Jenkins, Helm, Docker? Do you have infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, K8s, etc? Experience with Go? Great, that helps!
• You are excited about opportunities to serve as a mentor and to play a pivotal role in fostering both technical excellence and team unity
• Your passion for understanding and solving complex engineering challenges is matched by your pragmatic approach to problem-solving
• You're comfortable weighing in on CAP theorem considerations, and are energized by selecting the data structure with the perfect trade-offs for a problem at hand
• You believe that honing ideas and technical designs with other engineers is crucial for achieving an optimal solution
• You value asking good questions, because you believe “a problem well-stated is half-solved.”

Benefits

• Salary from 6000 EUR/month
• Yearly % bonus depending on the performance of the company, paid out in 2 installments
• Flexible working hours & Full remote within Slovakia ; optional membership in major co-working spaces; in Czechia we also have offices in Prague or Brno
• Generous employee stock plan in the form of RSUs (restricted stock units) grant not options; 4 years vesting with 1 year cliff and then quarterly
• Meal Allowance (maximum value of the employer’s contribution per day: €4.29)
• Wellbeing Allowance (€120/month)
• Flexible Time Off (on top of the standard 5 weeks of vacation)
• Flexible Paid Sick Days
• Fully Paid Short Term Sick/Short Term Nursing Leave
• Global gender-neutral Parental Leave (16 weeks, beyond the leave provided by the local laws) & Grandparent Leave
• Volunteering paid day off & Additional paid Company holidays off
• Pension insurance contribution
• Premium Life Insurance covered by S1
• Global Employee Assistance Program (confidential counseling related to both personal and work life matters), Wellness Coach:Mind Body Sleep app company access (sessions, audiobooks, classes, private coaching etc.)
• High-end MacBook or Windows laptop, Home-office-setup gear & on top of that additional WFH Allowance
• LinkedIn Learning platform for Hard/Soft skills Training, internal mentoring 'MentorOne' & Support for your further educational activities/trainings
• Above-standard referral bonus
• Yearly bonus depending on the performance of the company
• Optional company events for those who like to meet outside of work too - mostly in Czechia expensed as business trip (sport, BBQ, charity etc.)