Used Tools & Technologies
Not specified
Required Skills & Competences ?
Kafka @ 3 Spark @ 3 Distributed Systems @ 8 Flink @ 3 Spark Streaming @ 3 Leadership @ 7 Communication @ 7 API @ 4 Engineering Management @ 6 System Architecture @ 4 Sentry @ 4Details
Sentry is building performance and error monitoring tools used by thousands of organizations. The Event Streaming Platform is a core technical pillar that ingests, processes, and routes billions of events per day. This role leads the Event Streaming team, owning technical vision, system reliability, team health, and cross-functional partnerships while helping shape how Sentry handles real-time data at scale. Sentry embraces a hybrid work model with Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays as in-office anchor days.
Responsibilities
- Lead a globally distributed team working on a foundational streaming platform
- 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 making key technical decisions
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to build scalable APIs and developer-friendly primitives that hide streaming infrastructure complexity
- Own reliability, performance, and delivery of the team's roadmap while promoting 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 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 proven cross-team and leadership collaboration
- Demonstrated 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
Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications? Sentry encourages applicants who are excited about the opportunity and eager to grow.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary range: $220,000 to $260,000 USD (actual base determined by factors including location, experience, skills)
- Eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance). See Sentry Careers/Benefits for details.
Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
Sentry is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact [email protected].