Sentry
Engineering Manager, Data Platform
$220K–$400K
San Francisco, California · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- Significant professional software engineering experience; no number of years specified.
About the job
Lead Sentry’s Events Analytics Platform team, building and operating distributed data infrastructure for large-scale telemetry analytics and AI-powered product experiences.
What you'll do
- Lead, develop, and set priorities for engineers working on distributed data systems.
- Guide architecture and technical execution for storage, query, scalability, reliability, and performance improvements.
- Own platform operations and partner with product teams to deliver capabilities, including data access for Seer and other AI-powered experiences.
What they ask for
- Significant professional software engineering experience, including managing and developing engineers and leading technical projects.
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, data infrastructure, analytical databases, or large-scale backend systems.
- Hands-on experience building, scaling, or operating complex data-intensive systems, with depth in analytical database infrastructure or complex distributed data platforms.
- Experience with architectural tradeoffs, production-system ownership, incident response, and leading projects from design through operation.
Nice to have
- Experience with ClickHouse, Pinot, Druid, or other column-oriented analytical databases.
- Experience with query optimization, analytical storage, high-throughput data processing, observability infrastructure, or Python, Rust, or similar backend languages.
Pay
$220,000 to $400,000 USD base salary; annual performance bonus of up to 15% of base salary
Tools
ClickHouse, Apache Pinot, Apache Druid, Python, Rust
AI focus
Support Seer and other AI-powered experiences by providing efficient access to analytical workloads and production context.
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