Engineering Manager, Event Streaming

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About Sentry

Bad software is everywhere, and we’re tired of it. Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster. With more than $217 million in funding and 100,000+ organizations using Sentry, we build performance and error monitoring tools that help companies spend less time fixing bugs and more time building products.

Sentry embraces a hybrid work model, with Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays set as in-office anchor days to encourage meaningful collaboration.

About the role

Sentry's Event Streaming Platform is one of the company's most critical technical pillars. Every Sentry product relies on fast, reliable stream processing to power real-time insights, automation, and alerting. This team builds the platform that ingests, processes, and routes billions of events per day, enabling developers across Sentry to build on top of streaming data with confidence and speed.

As the Engineering Manager for the Event Streaming team, you will lead a group of talented engineers across multiple regions and time zones and own technical vision, team health, system reliability, and cross-functional partnership. This is a high-ownership role with influence across platform architecture, developer experience, and the broader engineering organization. The role will work closely with Infrastructure and Product leaders and is expected to expand in scope over time as the Platform organization grows.

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed team working on one of Sentry’s foundational systems.
• Nurture and grow engineers at different levels through coaching, mentorship, and career development.
• Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on ownership, learning, and delivery.
• Drive the evolution of Sentry’s event streaming platform, contributing to system architecture and owning key technical decisions.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to build scalable APIs and developer-friendly primitives that abstract streaming infrastructure complexity.
• Own the reliability, performance, and delivery of the team roadmap while fostering technical excellence and collaboration.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally focused on backend, distributed systems, or infrastructure.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including growing and managing teams of 10+ engineers.
• Experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager leading the architecture, development, and long-term evolution of large-scale, real-time event processing systems.
• Familiarity with streaming systems such as Kafka, Flink, Beam, Spark Streaming, or similar technologies.
• Strong technical communication skills and a track record of effective cross-team and leadership collaboration.
• Proven experience delivering and owning multi-year engineering efforts in a leadership or tech lead capacity.
• Comfortable working across organizational boundaries and aligning product, infra, and platform priorities.

You’ll love this job if you

• Are passionate about real-time streaming systems and building platforms that enable others to move faster.
• Enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and turning them into clean, usable abstractions.
• Value cross-functional collaboration and thrive in hybrid, in-person settings with engineers across functions, levels, and geographies.
• Have a long-term vision for platform engineering and are excited to take on broader organizational scope over time.
• Take pride in building strong, healthy teams and enabling them to lead high-impact, multi-year initiatives.

Compensation & benefits

The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $220,000 to $260,000 USD. A successful candidate’s actual base salary will be determined by factors including work location, experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details.

Equal Opportunity & accommodations

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