Staff / Principal

Sentry is an application monitoring platform trusted by 200,000+ organizations, helping developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice. The team is building its AI-native future.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Issues team, you will architect 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. You'll be the technical leader shaping how Sentry groups issues, makes search lightning-fast, enables agentic workflows, and ensures performance at billions-of-events scale.

• Drive technical strategy and roadmap, partnering with engineering leadership, product, and design.
• Make strategic calls about architectural direction, technology choices, and technical debt.
• Solve complex performance and scalability challenges.
• Champion product quality and user experience, instrumenting everything to measure and improve.
• Mentor and elevate others, helping engineers grow their skills.

• 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.

CA$253K – CA$316K salary, plus equity and up to 20% bonus.

Sentry is committed to equal employment opportunity and provides reasonable accommodations for disabilities. Contact accommodations@sentry.io for assistance.