Sentry

Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

Sentry
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Base Salary

$240k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable distributed systems supporting Sentry’s products and engineering teams.
  • Own complex technical projects from identifying problems and defining solutions through implementation, deployment, and production operations.
  • Solve problems involving architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
  • Make architectural decisions and evaluate tradeoffs involving performance, complexity, maintainability, and scalability.
  • Contribute hands-on production-quality code, review designs, and resolve complex technical issues.
  • Influence technical direction, establish engineering standards, and drive improvements across engineering teams.
  • Share technical knowledge, mentor engineers, and strengthen engineering practices across the organization.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong background designing, building, and operating distributed systems or infrastructure.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or a comparable language.
  • Experience designing and implementing technically complex systems with meaningful engineering outcomes.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Ability to independently own complex projects, navigate ambiguity, and drive solutions from design through production.
  • Deep technical experience in one or more areas including cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, data infrastructure, infrastructure reliability, or developer infrastructure.
  • Experience with relevant infrastructure technologies or domains such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, distributed storage, databases, observability, performance optimization, incident response, or internal developer platforms.
  • Strong architectural judgment and the ability to design for reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts, collaborate effectively, and influence engineering decisions across teams.
  • Experience improving engineering practices, sharing technical knowledge, or helping other engineers grow.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $240,000 to $400,000 plus an annual performance bonus of up to 15% of base salary.
  • Eligibility for employee benefit plans including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage.
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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