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.
Please note that under Federal & FedRAMP regulations, hiring for this role is limited to US citizens only.
FedRAMP Staff may be subject to customer or third-party background checks up to and including secret clearance if required by their role at SentinelOne.
We seek a Cloud Database Engineer with expertise in both relational databases (Amazon Aurora and GCP-hosted PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (Cassandra) to lead critical efforts in optimizing, scaling, and automating our cloud database infrastructure.
In this role, you will take ownership of high-scale, production-grade database environments, driving cost efficiency, performance, and operational excellence. You will collaborate closely with platform, infrastructure, and FinOps teams to ensure our databases are secure, resilient, and cost-effective. You will also define best practices and automation standards through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and partner with application teams to implement the plans.
US Eastern Time Zone preferred due to collaboration requirements with teams in Europe and India.
What will you do?- Operate and optimize Aurora and GCP PostgreSQL DBs powering mission-critical, high-throughput workloads.
- Manage and scale Cassandra clusters, ensuring high availability and performance for high-scale data flows and global platform availability.
- Provide guidance on schema design, query optimization, and observability for both cloud-native relational and NoSQL workloads.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities, reduce over-provisioning, and tune configurations for maximum efficiency across all database platforms.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) modules for repeatable and scalable database provisioning.
- Design and implement backup, HA/DR, upgrade, and maintenance strategies for mission-critical systems.
- Collaborate with engineering and FinOps teams to align provisioning and usage with business requirements.
- 5+ years of experience as a DBA or Database Engineer in cloud-based environments.
- Deep hands-on experience with managed relational services, including Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL) and GCP Cloud SQL / for PostgreSQL.
- Hands-on experience managing and operating large-scale Cassandra clusters.
- Proficiency in SQL and performance tuning, query analysis, and database monitoring.
- Experience writing and maintaining Terraform code for database infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of backup/restore strategies, replication, and high availability in managed DB services.
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or equivalent) for automation and tooling.
- Experience in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting operational and cost data to identify inefficiencies and prioritize optimization efforts.
- Ability to use statistical and usage-based analysis to drive infrastructure decisions and focus engineering efforts where they deliver the most value.
- Experience operating both relational and NoSQL databases in large-scale, multi-region environments.
- Experience driving efficient and performance database solutions techniques for cloud databases.
- Experience in detecting and fixing performance bottlenecks.
- Exposure to Kubernetes-native database management or operators is a plus.
- Comfortable collaborating across engineering, SRE, and platform teams.
You will be joining a cutting-edge company where you will tackle extraordinary challenges and work with the very best in the industry.
- 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
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.
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.
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