Sentry
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform
$260K–$400K
San Francisco, California · Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Sets technical direction across Sentry’s Platform organization and leads hands-on, cross-team engineering initiatives spanning infrastructure, streaming, and storage.
What you'll do
- Lead platform initiatives from problem definition and architectural design through implementation, rollout, and evaluation.
- Address platform bottlenecks, reliability risks, and architectural constraints while balancing performance, cost, complexity, and delivery speed.
- Guide architectural decisions, partner with engineering and product leaders, and mentor senior and staff engineers.
What they ask for
- Proven ability to set technical direction across multiple engineering teams and align engineering and product leaders.
- Track record of leading complex cross-team initiatives through production delivery with measurable improvements.
- Deep experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP.
- Strong hands-on engineering skills and deep expertise in at least one listed platform area: cloud infrastructure, event streaming, or distributed storage and data systems.
Pay
$260,000 to $400,000 USD base salary; up to 20% of base salary annual performance bonus (not stated as total pay)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Flink, Beam
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