Sentry

Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling

Sentry
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Base Salary

$220k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Audit and prioritize Sentry’s internal developer systems for API access by AI agents and build the required end-to-end connections.
  • Develop agent harness tooling, context systems, feedback loops, automated pre-review checks, and pull-request quality measurement.
  • Automate recurring engineering work including security dependency upgrades, minor bug fixes, and routine maintenance.
  • Build internal engineering productivity tools such as dashboards, AI-assisted issue triage, CI/CD optimizations, and toil-reduction systems.
  • Use data and direct observation to identify engineering friction, recommend solutions to senior leadership, and drive cross-team adoption.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience building tools or workflows that improve developer or AI-agent productivity, including developer infrastructure, CI/CD, AI harness tooling, AI-first coding workflows, or relevant public contributions.
  • Strong software engineering and systems design fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience with and genuine curiosity about AI coding tools and agents; prior machine learning experience is not required.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to senior technical leadership.
  • Track record of driving cross-team technical initiatives to completion.
  • Preferred: experience with large-scale distributed systems or monolith decomposition.
  • Preferred: experience with developer experience or engineering productivity programs.
  • Preferred: familiarity with code review tooling, static analysis, or automated pull-request pipelines.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $155,000 to $400,000 USD, plus eligibility for up to a 20% bonus.
  • Eligibility for employee benefit plans and programs applicable to the position, 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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