Staff Forward Deploy Engineer

Our PurposeAt 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 UsSentinelOne 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 Staff Forward Deploy Engineer at SentinelOne, you will sit at the intersection of our customers and our product. Your time splits between customer engineering teams and our own codebases– shipping the integrations, fixes, and platform improvements customer deployments require. Your work will touch many products and services across the company including our data pipeline and the Singularity Data Lake and EventDB (our highly scalable columnar database that ingests Petabytes of data per day).You'll work closely with customers to understand their environments, translate ambiguous requirements into shipped solutions, and build integrations, customizations, and upstream product contributions that unlock real business value. We're seeking a seasoned colleague, able to own customer engagements end-to-end, inspire others as a Staff Forward Deploy Engineer, and lead technically across unfamiliar codebases and messy problem spaces. You will interact with engineers in and across the org, tech leads, architects, product management, sales, and customer executive stakeholders.What Will You Do?Software Development (fullstack; primarily React/Java) Dive deep into coding, turning customer requirements and product gaps into shipped solutions. Write robust tests, tackle bugs with finesse, and ensure top-notch security in your code. Expect to move between codebases regularly, including on escalated issues that span multiple products.Customer Engagement and Requirements Gathering Partner with customers and our field teams to understand customer environments, goals, and constraints. Turn loose, ambiguous (possibly contradictory!) asks into a clear technical strategy. Carry field learnings back into product and engineering planning while advocating for what customers need. Occasionally support pre-sales scoping where early engineering input shapes a good outcome.Customer Integrations, Deployments, and Enablement Own the design and delivery of integrations that connect SentinelOne products into customer environments. Often this is work you will do alongside the customer's engineers, shaping both the solution and the knowledge transfer that goes with it. Produce the runbooks, integration docs, and executive-level technical communication that let customers operate independently.Upstream Contributions to the Core Product When something needs fixing or improving in the core platform to make a customer whole, you go do it. Partner with platform teams to get contributions reviewed and supported long-term, and know when to invest in the long-term fix versus the near-term unblock. Along the way, build the tooling that codifies repeatable patterns and scales the whole Forward Deploy function.Technical Leadership and Mentorship Raise the bar for the Forward Deploy Engineering team. Mentor Senior Forward Deploy Engineers, set standards for how engagements are scoped and delivered, and shape how the team operates as it grows.Build and Review Technical Specifications Architect end-to-end solutions for complex problems with loose definition, sometimes spanning multiple codebases and owning teams. Document trade-offs and critical implementation details; review and provide meaningful feedback on other specs, understanding broader patterns and downstream/upstream dependencies.Code Review Champion code quality, security, an