Job description
About Us
At SentinelOne, we’re redefining cybersecurity by pushing the limits of what’s possible—leveraging AI-powered, data-driven innovation to stay ahead of tomorrow’s threats.
From building industry-leading products to cultivating an exceptional company culture, our core values guide everything we do. We’re looking for passionate individuals who thrive in collaborative environments and are eager to drive impact. If you’re excited about solving complex challenges in bold, innovative ways, we’d love to connect with you.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for a experienced Staff (technical-leader level) malware researcher/detection engineer with experience in the Linux or/and cloud security domain. People that can explore new technologies, design and develop from scratch innovative ideas and drive new detection capabilities and infrastructure at scale to our products.
What will you do?
- You will be responsible for detecting the newest malwares and exploits based on SentinelOne’s AI-powered Endpoint platform (EPP/EDR).
- The role includes an end to end responsibility for behaviour based detection capabilities, starting from reversing the samples, designing new methods to detect or prevent those, and incorporating it into the product along with the engineering teams.
- You will be developing and using internal research tools, PoCs and discovering new ways to detect/prevent malicious techniques.
- We’re seeking a seasoned colleague, able to lead research as well as to design and lead detection features/epics, inspire and mentor others in the team, and lead technically. You will interact with researchers and engineers in and across the org, tech leads, architects, product management, and so on.
At the end of the day, your deliveries will enhance the security of countless of different Linux endpoints 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) and billions of events daily as part of SentinelOne’s security offering.
You will also be encouraged to write white papers, blogs and articles (but only if you wish to).
Your duties:
- Detection Development
- Write tests to cover new detections
- Conduct low level security research
- Peer code reviews; Participate in team’s design reviews
- Learn new technologies in the Linux and Cloud workloads security domains
- Support customers with issues and requests within the team’s domain
What skills & knowledge should you bring?
- Experience in malware analysis (statically and dynamically)
- Understanding of Linux and Containers threat landscape (including but not limited to frameworks, MITRE IaaS)
- Proficient in Linux OS architecture and internals - understanding how core system components (Processes and Threads, Virtual Memory and more) work behind the scenes
- Experience with Python or Lua or other languages for scripting
- Solid familiarity and understanding of C++
- An advantage would be:
- experience with reverse engineering of x86/x64 binaries
- understanding of existing Anti-Virus/Endpoint Protection SW internals
- experience with eBPF (you may learn more about eBPF and how we use it at S1 here )
- experience with Cloud Workloads (EKS, ECS, Fargate, etc.‘)
- experience working on a production-grade product with a wide scale deployment
Why us?
Because you will meet extraordinary challenges facing the newest attacks and tech obstacles and overcoming them. You will work with the very BEST in the industry in a flexible and independent environment. You will influence the design of a disruptive product that will shape the security industry of tomorrow.
What we offer you
Salary from 5000 EUR/month.
Yearly % bonus depending on the performance of the company, paid out in 2 installments.
*The final base salary component can be increased accordingly to individual skills and experience of the selected candidate.
On top of that you may look forward to:
- Flexible working hours & Full remote within Slovakia; optional membership in major co-working spaces; in Czechia we also have offices in Prague or Brno
- Generous employee stock plan in the form of RSUs (restricted stock units) grant not options; 4 years vesting with 1 year cliff and then quarterly
- Meal Allowance (maximum value of the employer’s contribution per day: €4.27)
- Wellbeing Allowance (€120/month)
- Flexible Time Off (on top of the standard 5 weeks of vacation)
- Flexible Paid Sick Days
- Fully Paid Short Term Sick/Short Term Nursing Leave
- Global gender-neutral Parental Leave (16 weeks, beyond the leave provided by the local laws) & Grandparent Leave
- Volunteering paid day off & Additional paid Company holidays off (e.g. 4 days in 2022)
- Pension insurance contribution
- Premium Life Insurance covered by S1
- Global Employee Assistance Program (confidential counseling related to both personal and work life matters), Wellness Coach:Mind Body Sleep app company access (sessions, audiobooks, classes, private coaching etc.)
- High-end MacBook or Windows laptop, Home-office-setup gear & on top of that additional WFH Allowance
- LinkedIn Learning platform for Hard/Soft skills Training, internal mentoring ‘MentorOne’ & Support for your further educational activities/trainings
- Above-standard referral bonus
- Yearly bonus depending on the performance of the company
- On top of RSUs, you can benefit also from our attractive ESPP (employee stock purchase plan)
- Optional company events for those who like to meet outside of work too - mostly in Czechia expensed as business trip (sport, BBQ, charity etc.)
SentinelOne 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.
