Sentry

Staff Software Engineer, Issue Workflow

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6 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+

Base Salary

$253k - $316k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive the technical strategy, roadmap, architectural direction, technology choices, and technical debt management for the Issue Workflow platform.
  • Architect and build real-time data pipelines, search backends, analysis systems, and workflows operating at billions-of-events scale.
  • Solve complex performance and scalability challenges across distributed systems.
  • Partner with engineering leadership, product, and design to shape the multi-quarter technical vision.
  • Build high-quality, performant product features with careful attention to interfaces, error messages, loading states, edge cases, instrumentation, and user experience.
  • Mentor and elevate engineers in systems design, coding practices, and product thinking.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, ideally with Python and TypeScript.
  • Expertise in domain modeling, distributed systems, data stores, and message queues.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Kafka is preferred.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Understanding of eventual consistency, partitioning strategies, caching layers, query optimization, failure handling, and graceful degradation.
  • Full-stack understanding spanning data ingestion, APIs, frontend performance, browser rendering, and user experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays as in-office anchor days across global hubs.

Categories

BackendData EngineeringFull Stack
Sentry

About Sentry

201-500 employees

Sentry builds application monitoring and error/performance tracking tools for software developers, delivered as a SaaS with open-source SDKs and integrations. Teams use Sentry to detect, triage, and resolve production issues across web and mobile apps; the platform is used by 200,000+ organizations. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Sentry is a privately held company.

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