Staff Software Engineer - Data Ingest

Summary

Join SentinelOne, a leading cybersecurity company, and become a Staff SW Engineer specializing in data ingestion and processing for our Singularity Security Data Lake platform. You will lead feature implementations, write and review code, build and review technical specifications, and participate in on-call support. This role requires expertise in modern Java, experience with large-scale data processing systems (Kafka), and a deep understanding of distributed systems. You will work collaboratively with a team to build high-scale, elegant, and simple systems. The position offers flexible hybrid work options in Prague, Brno, or remotely across CZ/SK, along with a competitive benefits package.

Requirements

• You’re passionate about building high-scale elegant and simple distributed systems - and during the past several years you’ve successfully designed & implemented them to solve complex problems
• You enjoy a collaborative development process using design discussions and code review
• You’re looking for the technical challenges of ingesting and processing petabytes of data daily
• You enjoy writing modern Java or Go, and are in general flexible in learning & using the right tool for the job (incl. new paradigms like Rust etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar on large scale solutions
• You possess solid foundation on building ingestion pipelines, experience with solving high volume streaming challenges and scaling
• You can identify relevant improvements/solutions in the literature & bring them into production when they fit
• Deep understanding of technology trade-offs and costs of different options, to keep the system stable and scalable

Responsibilities

• Lead implementations of new specifications; Write tests to cover new code or newly found issues
• Implement with consistent coding patterns with a focus on stability and security
• Review Code
• Raise the quality, stability and security of the code for entire team codebase
• Provide guidance and meaningful feedback, understanding broader patterns and downstream and upstream dependencies
• Build and Review Technical Specifications
• Document trade-offs in solutions/implementations; Document critical implementation details/pipelines; Review and provide feedback on other specs
• Deeply understands architecture of Ingestion pipelines and connected features
• Architect end-to-end solution for a complex feature with loose problem definition
• Respond/troubleshoot to outage incidents; Fix newly found issues
• Help team members solve problems; Provide feedback; Attend weekly team sync; Provide Daily Standup in Slack

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
• Pension Insurance Contribution, Premium life insurance, Private medical care (for you and +1), 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)