Senior Staff Software Engineer (Platform)

Join Sentry, a leading error tracking and performance monitoring platform. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of Sentry's platform. You will collaborate with teams across the company, translate business needs into technical blueprints, and promote engineering excellence. This is a unique opportunity to make architectural decisions that will impact Sentry's long-term success.

- Bring new ideas, tools, and frameworks to the table—and know when to optimize for simplicity over novelty
- Enjoy designing and building platforms that help teams move faster and scale safely
- Thrive on solving complex, multi-dimensional problems across product, infrastructure, and organizational layers
- Want to make architectural decisions that shape Sentry’s long-term success
- Enjoy working closely with senior leadership and cross-functional partners to drive company-wide initiatives
- Kubernetes, Terraform, Service Mesh
- Proven track record of leading cross-team, high-impact engineering projects
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts to a range of stakeholders
- OLAP/OLTP databases, blob storage, caching
- Kafka and real-time streaming frameworks (e.g., Flink, Beam)
- 5+ years working in cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP, etc.)
- 3+ years in a technical architecture or equivalent leadership role
- 12+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems
- Deep knowledge of modern infrastructure technologies, including:
- Ability to create production-quality proof-of-concept architectures and write high-quality code
- Experience mentoring senior/staff-level engineers