Sentry
Senior Software Engineer, Issue Detection
$155K–$400K
San Francisco, California · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate the real-time systems that detect application problems, group events into issues, and provide useful investigation context for developers and AI agents.
What you'll do
- Build and scale features for systems processing billions of events daily, balancing query latency and correctness.
- Own substantial projects end to end, from scoping and technical decisions through delivery, instrumentation, and measurement.
- Improve issue grouping, search, large-scale migrations and backfills, product quality, and team capabilities through mentoring.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience.
- Strong domain modeling skills and working experience with distributed systems, data stores, and message queues.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to have
- Python and TypeScript experience is ideal.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, or Kafka.
Pay
$155K – $400K USD base salary
Tools
Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka
AI focus
Build context that developers and AI agents need to investigate problems; make the issue surface work well for humans and agents.
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