Engineering Manager, Billing Platform

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About Sentry

Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building.

Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and the team is building its AI-native future.

About the team

The Billing team sits at the intersection of product, finance, and infrastructure. They are responsible for ensuring every observable event—errors, logs, traces, tokens—gets accurately measured, priced, and billed. Their work directly impacts company revenue and customer trust, requiring distributed systems expertise, attention to financial accuracy, and deep understanding of product usage patterns. The team works cross-functionally with product, engineering, BizOps, marketing, and sales to build systems that enable new products and pricing models.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a team of engineers owning critical workflows such as checkout and invoicing, while also developing new features to help customers manage their spend growth. You will partner across the organization to ensure customers redeem everything Sentry has to offer and budget for future expansion.

Responsibilities

• Strategic planning & roadmap: define and drive the team's roadmap, align team goals with organizational objectives, and contribute to overall platform strategy.
• Technical guidance & operational excellence: provide technical leadership on complex distributed systems and design; ensure proactive identification of areas for improvement.
• Cross-functional collaboration: partner closely with business and technical teams to translate business goals into actionable objectives and scalable solutions.
• Team leadership & development: lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers (including Staff-level engineers); build a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation.
• Communication & reporting: communicate team progress, challenges, and strategic direction to senior leadership and stakeholders; represent the team's work internally and externally (e.g., blog posts, presentations).

Requirements / Qualifications

• 5+ years professional engineering experience, preferably with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript or similar.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience.
• Experience working on a customer-facing product, ideally within developer tools or high-traffic product surfaces.
• Experience owning a product area end-to-end, from shipping new features through long-term maintenance and iteration.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly and succinctly.
• Experience with scoping work, performing resource allocation, and establishing engineering milestones and delivery dates.
• Comfortable with distributed systems and software architecture problems; product- and platform-minded leadership.
• Ability to collaborate with Product and Design when determining product outcomes and technical priorities.

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $220,000 to $280,000. A successful candidate’s actual base salary will be determined by factors including work location, education, experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage).

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact [email protected].