Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About Sentry

Bad software is everywhere, and we’re tired of it. Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster so we can get back to enjoying technology.

With more than $217 million in funding and 100,000+ organizations that believe we’re on to something, we're building performance and error monitoring tools that help companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian spend less time fixing bugs and more time building products.

Sentry embraces a hybrid work model across our global hubs, with Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays set as in-office anchor days to encourage meaningful collaboration. If you like to selfishly build things that make your digital life better, come help us build the next generation of software monitoring tools.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Platform team, you'll collaborate with a talented group of engineers to advance the foundational systems that power all of Sentry’s functionality! You'll be working on our next generation of purpose-built stateful systems — such as the open-source Objectstore. Imagine optimizing for ever greater scale, designing bulletproof and highly available systems, and pioneering new solutions that keep Sentry at the forefront of application monitoring. We build the backbone that lets developers focus on what matters most.

You'll be instrumental in building and scaling the core infrastructure that powers Sentry's data ingestion. You will interface directly with engineers from all teams at Sentry, tackle complex engineering challenges, and contribute significantly to open-source projects that help developers worldwide.

In this role you will

• Design, build, and operate scalable systems that store and process mission-critical data from customer applications

• Collaborate with platform and product engineering teams teams to identify and build powerful abstractions that enable everyone at Sentry to ship software at scale with ease

• Solve intricate problems related to stateful systems, performance optimization, and high-throughput data processing

• Leverage multiple programming languages and technologies — primarily Rust and Python — to address critical system-level challenges

• Ensure the correctness and maintainability of your work through comprehensive unit and integration testing, complemented by clear documentation for colleagues and customers

• Partner with Infrastructure teams to architect resilient and fault-tolerant solutions that meet the highest operational standards

• Contribute to the stability and operational health of our services by participating in an on-call rotation

You’ll love this job if you

• Like building abstractions that make complex infrastructure easier for others to use

• Are motivated by designing systems that balance flexibility with best practices for stability

• Are enthusiastic about the opportunity to contribute full-time to impactful open-source projects (like our core Sentry product)

• Get excited about joining an agile crew where engineers iterate quickly, and challenge and inspire each other to constantly level up

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with background in distributed systems, data infrastructure, or streaming applications

• Proficiency in a programming language such as Rust, Python, or Go. We primarily use Rust and Python, but experience in similar languages is valuable

• Experience building and operating systems in cloud environments such as Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP

• Experience building durable services with graceful degradation and self-healing infrastructure, such as through load balancing, redundancy and fail-overs, data replication, and similar

• Beneficial: experience with cloud and object storage, distributed databases, or caching systems

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