Software Development Engineer in Test

Role overview

Software Development Engineer in Test at SentinelOne

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks and test infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on API and service-level validation for distributed, high-throughput systems (and UI validation where applicable).
• Design and run performance, scale, and resilience tests for services that evaluate hundreds of thousands of cloud resources and objects across multiple regions and providers.
• Develop, execute, and continuously improve automated test suites for new and existing functionality, while analyzing failures, reporting issues clearly, and driving resolution with engineering.
• Drive better quality processes, dashboards, reporting, and CI signals for faster and safer releases.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [Karnataka] [India], India

Application details

• Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.

About the employer

• Our Purpose At SentinelOne, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future.
• About Us SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity.
• Bonus Experience in cybersecurity products or security testing Experience working with coding agents / AI-assisted development workflows Meaningful open source contributions Experience testing self-hosted, enterprise, or infrastructure-heavy products Familiarity with release validation in environments with customer-specific deployments Why SentinelOne?
• SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S. based roles.

Benefits

• 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 Competitive leave benefits Gender-neutral parental leave Insurance & Financial Security Medical and insurance benefits Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Work Perks & Flexibility Global home office allowance Internet allowance LinkedIn Learning license Social Connect program Food allowance (Bangalore office) Meal vouchers (Sodexo) Wellness & Lifestyle Health & wellness benefit SentinelOne is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

Additional role details

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• What Are We Looking For?
• 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.
• As a 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.
• What will you do Primary responsibilities include: Own the quality strategy for key Cloud Security features and services across functional, integration, and end-to-end test coverage.
• Build testing approaches that validate the accuracy of our detection and policy engines - guarding against false positives and false negatives in the security findings we surface to customers.
• Work closely with developers, product managers, and other QA / automation engineers to define test plans early and improve release confidence.
• Own validation from feature design through release, including test planning, execution, triage, and sign-off.
• Raise the bar on product quality by identifying gaps in testability, observability, reliability, and release readiness.
• Extend quality coverage into Cloud and On-Prem Data Storage Protection, validating data discovery, classification, and exposure detection across cloud object stores, managed databases, and on-prem file systems and storage repositories.
• What skills and experience should you bring Ideal candidates will have: 5+ years of experience in test automation / automation development.
• Strong product thinking with the ability to translate product behavior and customer workflows into effective test strategy Strong hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright, Python, and TypeScript Strong experience building robust test automation for complex systems, aligned with the current JD’s focus on complex system-level testing.
• Experience debugging issues deeply and working closely with developers to drive fixes.
• Strong experience with Jenkins-based CI pipelines and test execution workflows Experience with Allure or similar test reporting / insights platforms Solid understanding of automation architecture, test design, and maintainable framework development Strong problem-solving, ownership, and self-management skills; proactive, collaborative, and able to operate with high independence.
• 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.
• 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.