Staff Backend Engineer - Prompt Security (Node.js / TypeScript)

SentinelOne
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Geared toward backend engineers comfortable with AI security infrastructure and microservices, with a preference for remote work in the United States.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years of Node.js and TypeScript experience in AI security infrastructure
    — “8+ years of backend development experience in Node.js and TypeScript.”
  • Experienced engineers who have worked on scalable, distributed systems and microservices
    — “Experience designing and implementing microservices.”

Things to consider

  • The role demands expertise in cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP for deployment and management
    — “Work with cloud services (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP) to deploy and manage backend services.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with RESTful API design and microservices architecture in your resume and interviews
    — “Experience developing and integrating APIs, including designing and building RESTful APIs.”
  • Emphasize your background in optimizing performance and managing large-scale distributed systems
    — “Experience with scalability and performance optimization, including caching strategies, message queues, and large-scale, distributed architectures.”
  • Showcase your ability to implement security measures in backend systems, such as authentication and data protection
    — “Experience implementing authentication, authorization, and data protection mechanisms.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • designing and maintaining scalable server-side applications
  • implementing security policies
  • deploying backend services
Typical background
8+ years of backend development experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Node.jsTypeScriptDatabase ManagementAPI DevelopmentMicroservices ArchitectureCloud ServicesSecurity Measures

Preferred

GraphQLNvidia Omniverse

Stack & domain

Node.jsTypeScriptDatabase ManagementAPI DevelopmentMicroservicesCloud ServicesProblem-solvingCommunicationCollaborationCybersecurityAI

About the role

Original posting from SentinelOne

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 Staff Back-End Engineer, you will be tasked with building backend infrastructure for our AI security product, focused on monitoring AI assets, assessing risks, and delivering actionable insights. You will work in a fast-paced, innovative environment that requires agility, adaptability, and continuous iteration. Your work will also include enforcing security policies and ensuring safe, compliant AI deployment while contributing to the future of cybersecurity.

What Will You Do?

Primary responsibilities include:

Design, develop, and maintain scalable server-side applications and APIs.

Implement and optimize database schemas, queries, and data storage solutions.

Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

Participate in code reviews and contribute to architectural decisions.

Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.

Implement security and data protection measures.

Work with cloud services (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP) to deploy and manage backend services.

Contribute to the development of microservices architecture.

Stay updated with emerging backend technologies and industry best practices.

What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring?

Ideal candidates will have:

8+ years of backend development experience in Node.js and TypeScript.

Experience with database management.

Experience developing and integrating APIs, including designing and building RESTful APIs; familiarity with GraphQL is a plus.

Experience designing and implementing microservices.

Experience with scalability and performance optimization, including caching strategies, message queues, and large-scale, distributed architectures.

Experience implementing authentication, authorization, and data protection mechanisms.

Strong problem-solving skills.

Communication and collaboration skills.

Why SentinelOne?

AI is redefining how the world operates and rewriting the rules of security in real time, and SentinelOne was built for this moment. From day one, we architected an AI-native platform designed to operate at machine speed, not as an add-on to legacy systems but as the foundation itself. If you want to build where innovation and impact move together, this is that place.

We invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive, competitive benefits designed to support you and your family:

Equity & Rewards

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Time Off & Wellbeing

Flexible time off

Paid company holidays and paid sick time

Gender-neutral parental leave

Grandparent leave

Insurance & Financial Security

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

Work Perks & Flexibility

Home office allowance

Mobile phone reimbursement

Wellness & Lifestyle

Wellness coach

Wellness/gym reimbursement

Fertility coverage

Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement

This U.S. role has a base pay range that will vary based on the location of the candidate. For some locations, a different pay range may apply.  If so, this range will be provided to you during the recruiting process. You can also reach out to the recruiter with any questions.

Base Salary Range$156,000—$215,000 USDSentinelOne is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S. based roles. 

Source: SentinelOne careers

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