Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

<div class="content-intro"><h3>Our Purpose<strong><br></strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <h3>About Us<strong><br></strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h3><strong>What Are We Looking For?</strong></h3> <p>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.</p></div><p>As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test tasked to join our On Prem team and help us build a high-quality, reliable self-hosted product. The ideal candidate combines strong automation depth with solid product thinking — someone who understands how customers use the product, knows where quality risks hide, and can design the right test strategy to catch them early.</p> <h3>What will you do</h3> <p>Primary responsibilities include:</p> <ul> <li>Own the quality strategy for key OnPrem features across functional, integration, and end-to-end test coverage</li> <li>Design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks and test infrastructure for UI and service-level validation, extending the current expectation to enhance and maintain automation tests and infrastructure.</li> <li>Work closely with developers, product managers, and other QA / automation engineers to define test plans early and improve release confidence, consistent with the existing expectation to partner closely with automation engineers and developers.</li> <li>Develop, execute, and continuously improve automated test suites for new and existing functionality, while analyzing failures, reporting issues clearly, and driving resolution with engineering.</li> <li>Own validation from feature design through release, including test planning, execution, triage, and sign-off.</li> <li>Raise the bar on product quality by identifying gaps in testability, observability, reliability, and release readiness</li> <li>Drive better quality processes, dashboards, reporting, and CI signal for faster and safer releases</li> <li>Mentor other engineers on automation best practices, debugging, and quality engineering principles</li> </ul> <h3>What skills and experience should you bring</h3> <p>Ideal candidates will have:</p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in test automation / automation development.</li> <li>Strong product thinking with the ability to translate product behavior and customer workflows into effective test strategy</li> <li>Strong hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright, Python, and TypeScript</li> <li>Strong experience building robust test automation for complex systems, aligned with the current JD’s focus on complex system-level testing.</li> <li>Experience debugging issues deeply and working closely with developers to drive fixes.</li> <li>Strong experience with Jenkins-based CI pipelines and test execution workflows</li> <li>Experience with Allure or similar test reporting / insights platforms</li> <li>Solid understanding of automation architecture, test design, and maintainable framework development</li> <li>Strong problem-solving, ownership, and self-management skills; proactive, collaborative, and able to operate with high independence.</li> </ul> <p>Bonus</p> <ul> <li>Experience in cybersecurity products or security testing</li> <li>Experience working with coding agents / AI-assisted development workflows</li> <li>Meaningful open source contributions</li> <li>Experience testing self-hosted, enterprise, or infrastructure-heavy products</li> <li>Familiarity with release validation in environments with customer-specific deployments</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Why SentinelOne?</h3> <p>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.</p> <p>We invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive, competitive benefits designed to support you and your family:</p> <p><strong>Equity &amp; Rewards</strong></p> <ul> <li>Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)</li> <li>Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Time Off &amp; Wellbeing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Competitive leave benefits</li> <li>Gender-neutral parental leave</li> </ul> <p><strong>Insurance &amp; Financial Security</strong></p> <ul> <li>Medical and insurance benefits</li> <li>Employee Assistance Program (EAP)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Work Perks &amp; Flexibility</strong></p> <ul> <li>Global home office allowance</li> <li>Internet allowance</li> <li>LinkedIn Learning license</li> <li>Social Connect program</li> <li>Food allowance (Bangalore office)</li> <li>Meal vouchers (Sodexo)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Wellness &amp; Lifestyle</strong></p> <ul> <li>Health &amp; wellness benefit</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S. based roles.&nbsp;</span></p></div>