[Remote] Staff Forward Deploy Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. As a Staff Forward Deploy Engineer, you will engage with customers to understand their environments and translate requirements into solutions, while also contributing to the core product and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Software Development (fullstack; primarily React/Java)
• Customer Engagement and Requirements Gathering
• Customer Integrations, Deployments, and Enablement
• Upstream Contributions to the Core Product
• Technical Leadership and Mentorship
• Build and Review Technical Specifications
• Code Review
• Support and Team Collaboration

Skills

• Solid computer science background with 6+ years engineering experience including both backend and frontend
• Proven expertise designing and operating distributed systems or data-intensive services
• Track record of leading substantial pieces of work end-to-end, under ambiguity, with multiple stakeholders
• Experience working directly with customers or senior stakeholders to shape technical solutions
• Deep proficiency in at least one production language (Java strongly preferred; 5+ years) and working comfort in at least one additional language
• You value elegant code that is concise and readable
• You'll pick up new tools and codebases as the work demands, and will likely end up working with modern Java, React, TypeScript, Kafka, Redis, GraphQL, Node.js, SentinelOne's own platform, and more
• You enjoy writing modern Java (we love lambdas) and prefer composition to inheritance
• 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're energized by walking into an unfamiliar codebase and being genuinely useful in a week, and by leading others through the same kind of work
• You believe a vague customer request is an interesting technical problem waiting to be reframed, and that 'a problem well-stated is half-solved.'
• You can translate between engineers and non-engineers (customers, executives, sales, product, etc.) without losing precision in either direction
• You'd rather ship a well-thought-out 80% that solves the real problem than a perfect 100% six weeks late. And you can teach others when to customize for one customer versus producing a general solution
• You take mentorship seriously and enjoy seeing other engineers grow in their ability to solve harder problems
• You take pride in clear written communication — tickets, design docs, customer runbooks, and executive briefings alike
• Experience in the cybersecurity domain is strongly preferred. (think SIEM, EDR/XDR, log pipelines, detection engineering, threat hunting, etc.)

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flexible time off
• Paid company holidays and paid sick time
• Gender-neutral parental leave
• Grandparent leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Life and disability insurance
• Health and dependent care FSA
• Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• ARAG pre-paid legal
• Nationwide pet insurance
• Cancer Care program
• Global business travel medical insurance
• Home office allowance
• Mobile phone reimbursement
• Wellness coach
• Wellness/gym reimbursement
• Fertility coverage
• Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement

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