Staff Software Engineer, Issue Workflow

Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Issue Workflow team, you'll architect the systems that power Sentry's primary product surface. You'll work at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and product engineering, building real-time data pipelines, search backends, and analysis systems that surface signal from noise. You'll be the technical leader who shapes how Sentry groups issues, how we make search lightning-fast, how we enable sophisticated agentic workflows, and how we ensure that the product is performant even at billions-of-events scale.

• Drive technical strategy and roadmap, partnering with engineering leadership, product, and design to shape the multi-quarter technical vision for Issue Workflow platform.
• Make strategic calls about architectural direction, technology choices, and technical debt.
• Solve complex performance and scalability challenges.
• Champion product quality and user experience, building features that delight.
• Mentor and elevate others, helping engineers grow their skills.

• Are a distributed systems engineer who understands the realities of high-scale architectures, including eventual consistency, partitioning strategies, caching layers, and query optimization.
• Are product-minded and collaborate effectively with Product and Design.
• Have strong full-stack instincts, understanding the entire system from data ingestion to what renders in the browser.
• Include and uplift others, being generous with knowledge and patient in explaining complex concepts.

• 10+ years in full-stack software engineering, ideally Python and Typescript.
• Expertise in domain modeling, distributed systems, data stores, message queues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Kafka is preferred.

$155K – $400K, plus equity, plus up to 20% bonus.

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations.

This role is remote. Apply via the application link.