Staff Cloud Database Engineer at SentinelOne
Atlanta, Georgia, USA -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

31 Oct, 25

Salary

204000.0

Posted On

31 Jul, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Bash, High Availability, Python, Teams, Automation, Operators, Performance Tuning, Postgresql, Replication, Database Monitoring

Industry

Information Technology/IT

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 SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE SHOULD YOU BRING?

  • 5+ years of experience as a DBA or Database Engineer in cloud-based environments.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL) and GCP Cloud SQL / for PostgreSQL.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL 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 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.
Responsibilities

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

  • Operate and optimize thousands of Aurora and GCP PostgreSQL DBs powering mission-critical, high-throughput workloads across production and non-production environments
  • environments, supporting petabyte-scale data flows and global platform availability
  • Provide guidance on schema design, query optimization, and observability for cloud-native PostgreSQL workloads.
  • Identify cost-saving opportunities, reduce over-provisioning, and tune configurations for maximum efficiency.
  • 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.
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