Senior Software Engineer - C++ Linux & Cloud Workload runtime Security
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SentinelOne
Job Description
Our Purpose
At SentinelOne, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future. As AI reshapes how organizations build, operate, and innovate, the responsibility to protect them becomes more critical than ever. When you join SentinelOne, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow. If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.
About Us
SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.
Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.
What Are We Looking For?
We’re looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.
As a Senior Software Engineer - C++ Linux & Cloud Workload Runtime Security, you will design and develop end-to-end detection capabilities to identify and defend against attacks on Linux servers, Kubernetes, and containerized environments. You will work on low-level kernel hooks, detection engines, and system-level challenges to deliver scalable security solutions at the runtime level. By collaborating on architecture, design reviews, and proof-of-concepts, you will continuously apply the latest Linux and cloud security technologies to protect mission-critical workloads.
What will you do?
The role includes end-to-end responsibility for new detection capabilities, starting from researching the landscape of new Linux/Containers related security technologies through designing detection strategies and algorithms and delivering them at scale. You will work on low-level Kernel hooks to complicated detection engines and pure system engineering challenges. Your deliveries will enhance the security of different Linux and cloud workloads platforms protected by our product, that serves thousands of users (from enterprise & public sector clients across the globe, incl. some of the largest companies globally).
What your role will look like:
- Software Development (70-80% of time)
- Conduct low level research and Design of new features
- Peer code reviews; Participate in team’s design reviews
- Teamwork
- Learn new technologies in the Linux and Cloud workloads security domains
- Architect end-to-end security solutions for complex features with loose problem definition
- Modeling and POC of solutions for complex problems
- Support customers with issues and requests within the team’s domain
What skills & knowledge should you bring?
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, developing complex systems in modern C++
- Proficient in Linux OS architecture, security, and internals.
- Hands-on experience with Linux low-level development and debugging.
- Previous experience of working on a production-grade product with a large-scale deployment.
It’d be great if you have experience with:
- Linux kernel development or kernel tracing
- Hands-on experience with eBPF
- Container internals, platforms, and orchestrators such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Linux networking
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