Senior Engineering Manager, Event Streaming

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About Sentry

Bad software is everywhere, and 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, the company builds performance and error monitoring tools used by companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian. Sentry embraces a hybrid work model with in-office anchor days on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays 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 streaming data with confidence and speed.

As the Senior Engineering Manager for the Event Streaming team, you'll lead a group of engineers across multiple regions and time zones and across a range of seniority levels. You will be responsible for 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. You will work closely with engineers and leaders across Infrastructure and Product to shape how Sentry handles real-time data at scale and may take on additional charters and teams over time as the Platform organization expands.

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed team working on one of Sentry's foundational systems
• Nurture and grow engineers 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's roadmap while promoting technical excellence and collaboration

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally focusing on backend, distributed systems, or infrastructure
• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including growing and managing teams of 10 or more 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, Apache Beam, Spark Streaming, or similar technologies
• Strong technical communication skills and a track record of 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, infrastructure, and platform priorities

Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications? Sentry encourages applications from candidates who are excited about the opportunity and eager to grow.

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, education, experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible for 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 more details.

Workplace

Sentry uses a hybrid work model. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays are in-office anchor days to encourage collaboration.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

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