SentinelOne

Sr. Manager, AI Software Engineering

SentinelOne$200K — $275K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in software or ML engineering
  • 3+ years leading engineering teams
  • Proven experience delivering production-grade software at scale
  • Strong technical skills in distributed systems and cloud-native services
  • Experience with AI/ML systems lifecycle management
  • Familiarity with MLOps practices
  • Excellent communication skills with stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop AI engineering teams
  • Execute strategic AI initiatives across the organization
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to align on technical plans
  • Establish effective engineering management practices
  • Mentor and foster a culture of accountability and innovation
  • Define best practices for AI system development
  • Support scalable architecture decisions for AI systems

Benefits

  • Equity options and employee stock purchase plan
  • Flexible time off and paid holidays
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Paid parental and grandparent leave
  • Home office and mobile phone reimbursement
  • Wellness coaching and gym reimbursement
Full Job Description
As a Senior Manager, AI Software Engineering, you will be tasked with managing and scaling AI Engineering teams responsible for delivering production-grade AI systems and customer-facing AI capabilities. Sitting within the P&T organization, you will play a key part in translating AI strategy into reliable, scalable software and platform outcomes. You will lead engineers working on AI-powered product capabilities, platform services, and supporting infrastructure while partnering closely with Product, Architecture, Security, Data, and other Engineering leaders to deliver high-impact AI initiatives with quality, speed, and operational rigor. What Will You Do? Primary responsibilities include: • Lead and grow one or more AI Engineering teams focused on delivering production AI capabilities and platform services. • Drive execution for strategic AI initiatives across the P&T organization, including customer-facing features, internal AI platform capabilities, and supporting engineering systems. • Partner with Product Management and cross-functional engineering leaders to translate roadmap priorities into clear technical plans, delivery milestones, and team outcomes. • Establish strong engineering management practices across planning, execution, quality, incident response, observability, and continuous improvement. • Mentor engineering managers and senior individual contributors while building a culture of accountability, innovation, and operational excellence. • Help define and enforce best practices for AI system development, MLOps, service reliability, security, and performance. • Support architecture and design decisions for scalable, low-latency, highly available AI systems and services. • Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent across AI, software, and platform domains. • Improve collaboration across globally distributed teams and ensure effective delivery across organizational boundaries. • Contribute to organization design, capacity planning, and quarterly and annual planning aligned to P&T and AI goals. • Operate as a delivery-focused engineering leader who balances innovation with reliability; raise the bar on execution discipline, technical quality, and cross-functional collaboration; build healthy teams with clear accountability, strong coaching, and high trust; make pragmatic decisions, surface risks early, and drive issues to resolution; and foster a culture that values customer impact, learning velocity, and engineering excellence. What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring? Ideal candidates will have: • 8 or more years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or closely related technical fields. • 3 or more years of experience leading engineering teams, including managing managers and/or senior engineers in a high-growth environment. • Proven track record of shipping production-grade software, AI, or data products at scale. • Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud-native services, and modern software engineering practices. • Experience building or operating AI and ML systems, including model integration, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management. • Familiarity with MLOps and platform capabilities required to support reliable AI product delivery. • Strong understanding of engineering quality, security, observability, and operational excellence practices. • Experience partnering effectively with Product, Design, Security, Data, and Infrastructure teams. • Excellent communication skills and the ability to align senior stakeholders around priorities, tradeoffs, and execution plans. • Demonstrated success hiring and developing high-performing engineering teams. • Experience leading teams that build AI-powered product features in cybersecurity, enterprise software, or data-intensive environments is preferred. • Experience with large-scale event processing, real-time systems, or detection and analytics platforms is preferred. • Hands-on familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, as well as Kubernetes, Docker, and modern CI/CD practices is preferred. • Experience with LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, retrieval systems, or applied AI platform services is preferred. • Background in endpoint security, cloud security, SIEM, or adjacent security domains is preferred. We invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive, competitive benefits designed to support you and your family: Equity & Rewards • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) Time Off & Wellbeing • Flexible time off • Paid company holidays and paid sick time • Gender-neutral parental leave • Grandparent leave Insurance & Financial Security • Medical, dental, and vision coverage • 401(k) retirement plan with company match • Life and disability insurance • Health and dependent care FSA • Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness) • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • ARAG pre-paid legal • Nationwide pet insurance • Cancer Care program • Global business travel medical insurance Work Perks & Flexibility • Home office allowance • Mobile phone reimbursement Wellness & Lifestyle • Wellness coach • Wellness/gym reimbursement • Fertility coverage • Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement 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. Base Salary Range $200,000-$275,000 USD

About SentinelOne

SentinelOne is a cybersecurity company that provides endpoint security solutions to protect businesses from cyber threats. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect and respond to threats in real-time. SentinelOne serves clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare, finance, and government. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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1,000 employees
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2013

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