Engineering Manager, Events Analytics Platform

at Sentry

📍 Toronto, Canada
📍 San Francisco, United States

USD 220,000-280,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Hybrid

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value. About proficiency levels:

1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

Security @ 3 Python @ 5 Distributed Systems @ 3 Leadership @ 3 People Management @ 7 Communication @ 3 Mentoring @ 3 Rust @ 5 Debugging @ 3 Sentry @ 3 Compliance @ 3 Observability @ 2 AI @ 3 ClickHouse @ 6

Details

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.

The Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team powers how Sentry's event data (errors, transactions, spans, profiles, replays, metrics) is stored, queried, and analyzed. EAP enables efficient search and debugging across massive volumes of data and is central to Sentry's strategy to become a context assembly and telemetry platform that unifies signals for a complete developer view. This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for architectural evolution, system stability, and mentoring a team of engineers.

Responsibilities

Grow and develop a team of engineers with high expectations for ownership and impact
Set the technical and strategic direction for the team, balancing short-term stability with long-term architectural evolution
Drive development of core EAP features, including support for complex analytical queries, dynamic routing logic across fidelity levels, storage and compute separation, and modern patterns for analytical storage
Ensure EAP can support the workload demands of AI agents and MCP servers that unlock new AI capabilities for Sentry
Guide the unification of all event data into EAP and enable fast, complex cross-event querying at scale
Partner closely with cross-functional teams including Product Engineering, Streaming, Production Engineering, Security, and Compliance
Lead the team through incidents, postmortems, and scaling challenges while fostering operational excellence
Build a healthy and collaborative team culture rooted in growth, accountability, and inclusion

You'll love this job if you

You enjoy mentoring and developing engineers, especially helping junior engineers grow into senior roles
You get excited by designing and running large-scale distributed data systems where performance and reliability matter
You are passionate about tackling the challenges of continuously scaling as Sentry's traffic grows
You like tackling complex querying and storage challenges at massive scale
You thrive on cross-functional collaboration with product and infrastructure teams
You want to work on a highly strategic team with significant visibility that shapes the future of Sentry's platform

Qualifications

10+ years of industry experience in software engineering, including 4+ years of people management experience with career development and performance management
Strong technical background in data platforms, storage systems, or analytical backends (for example, ClickHouse, Pinot, or Druid)
Experience with distributed systems, query optimization, or scaling data-intensive workloads
Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences
Proficiency with Python, Rust, or a similar programming language is a plus
Familiarity with observability, developer tools, or event-driven systems is a plus

Compensation

Base salary range (San Francisco): $220,000 to $280,000 per year
Compensation tiers also list Toronto: CA$232,000 to CA$295,000 per year

A candidate's actual base salary will be determined by factors including work location, experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Benefits & Other

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). See Sentry Benefits for details.

Equal Opportunity

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to employees and candidates regardless of legally-protected characteristics. This includes providing reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact [email protected].