Sentry
Director of Engineering, Platform (Runtime & Stateful Systems)
$300K–$450K
San Francisco, California · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 24, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years; Director-level engineering management experience, or equivalent senior engineering leadership experience.
About the job
Leads multiple engineering teams responsible for Sentry’s runtime and stateful platform systems, setting technical direction and ensuring reliable operation as the business scales.
What you'll do
- Lead teams responsible for databases, real-time compute and stream processing, blob storage, and distributed caching.
- Set technical strategy and drive major architectural changes, balancing scalability, reliability, performance, cost, and complexity.
- Develop engineering leaders and teams while coordinating cross-functional initiatives and operational excellence.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Director-level engineering management experience, or equivalent senior engineering leadership experience overseeing multiple teams at comparable scale and complexity.
- Deep technical expertise in at least one listed domain: OLTP or OLAP databases, real-time compute and stream processing, blob/object storage, or distributed caching.
- Experience driving significant architectural changes and complex cross-functional initiatives, and hiring and developing engineering managers and senior technical talent.
Pay
$300,000 to $450,000 USD base salary
Tools
OLTP databases, OLAP databases, Real-time compute, Stream processing, Blob/object storage, Distributed caching
AI focus
The systems support Sentry’s products, including Seer, and its AI capabilities.
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