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Information / Communication Information Service Activities Information Service Activities 63.99 - Other information service activities n.e.c.
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 October 2021
Employment effect (start)
14 October 2021
Foreseen end date
14 October 2024
Description
SentinelOne, the American provider of cyber security services, has announced the launch of a new office and innovation centre in Prague where 300 qualified people are to be employed. The company will recruit employees at all levels of expertise and across disciplines, including developers. The new site will house product development functions to augment existing teams in the Americas and Asia as well as elsewhere in Europe. Prague will also serve as SentinelOne's Engineering HQ for Europe. The company is investing more than CZK 1 billion (€ 39 million) in the Czech Republic over the next three years.
The vibrant tech firm was founded in 2013. It offers solutions that include prevention, detection, response and search for threats based on artificial intelligence across end stations, data containers, cloud work tasks and IoT devices within a single autonomous platform.
Eurofound (2021), SentinelOne, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 105451, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105451.
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