Principal Architect
SentinelOne
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $208,000 - $286,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMicroservices
About the role
- Define the Future Architecture: Serve as the final authority and strategic driver for the company's platform architecture, ensuring it aligns with our long-term vision, supports massive scale, and accelerates the delivery of our AI, data, and security product roadmap
- Platform & AI Integration: Lead the architectural design and evolution of our core platform components, focusing on seamless integration, high-performance data pipelines, and the operationalization of cutting-edge AI/ML capabilities into our threat detection and response engine
- Executive Technical Steering: Provide decisive technical guidance to R&D, Product Management, and Executive Leadership on critical build-vs-buy decisions, technology investments, and architectural trade-offs that have significant business impact
- Customer and Partner Leadership: Lead architecture and design discussions with key customers and partners, maximizing the reach and potential of our platform
- Systemic Risk Reduction: Identify and architect solutions for the most pressing systemic security, performance, and scaling issues across our production environments (multi-cloud/hybrid); this includes evolving our cloud security posture, data governance model, and continuous delivery pipelines
- Architecture Governance: Institute and champion a flexible, yet disciplined, set of architectural principles, standards, and patterns to ensure engineering velocity without compromising security, reliability, or cost-efficiency
- Technology Scouting: Maintain expert-level awareness of emerging technologies, particularly in Generative AI, large-scale data processing, serverless/container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and cloud-native security, evaluating their potential to provide a competitive advantage
- Engineering Elevation: Act as a hands-on mentor and technical thought leader, raising the architectural competence of senior engineers and architects across the organization
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Drive architectural consensus and adoption across globally distributed teams within the Product and Technology teams (R&D, DevOps, Cloud Ops, Security, and Product) and with Go-to-Market teams (Partners, Systems Engineering) often bridging technical silos and resolving complex organizational dependencies
Requirements
- 12+ years in technical leadership roles, with 4+ years as a Principal Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent role in a global-scale SaaS or cybersecurity company
- Deep expertise as a lead architect defining and evolving infrastructure, middleware, security, data, AI, and services architectures
- Expertise in designing and operating large-scale, multi-region cloud security platforms (AWS required; exposure to GCP/Azure preferred)
- Hands-on experience deploying AI/ML in production, including operationalizing models, LLM architectures, vector databases, and high-performance data pipelines
- Extensive background in platform architecture: data lakes, microservices, APIs, and multi-tenant SaaS delivery models
- Strong security background, with expertise in IAM, Zero Trust, and cryptographic controls
- Exceptional communication skills, able to articulate complex technical strategies to executives and engineers alike
- Advanced certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Security Specialty, or CISSP/CCSP
- Experience in fast-scaling cybersecurity environments handling petabyte-scale telemetry and real-time threat analysis
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, CNCF technologies, and cloud-native security practices
- Published thought leadership (patents, papers, or technical articles) in cloud architecture, AI, and/or cybersecurity
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, Dental, 401(k), Commuter, Health and Dependent FSA
- Unlimited PTO
- Industry-leading gender-neutral parental leave
- Paid company holidays
- Paid sick time
- Employee stock purchase program
- Disability and life insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Gym membership reimbursement
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Numerous company-sponsored events including regular happy hours and team-building events
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
platform architectureAI integrationdata pipelinescloud securitymulti-cloud architecturemicroservicesAPIsIAMZero TrustKubernetes
Soft skills
technical leadershipcommunicationmentorshipcross-functional alignmentstrategic guidanceproblem-solvingcollaborationexecutive communicationorganizational dependency resolutionarchitectural consensus
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect ProfessionalAWS Security SpecialtyCISSPCCSP