Senior Engineering Manager, Events Analytics Platform

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About Sentry

Bad software is everywhere, and Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster. Sentry builds performance and error monitoring tools used by companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian to 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

The Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team powers how Sentry's event data (errors, transactions, spans, profiles, replays, and metrics) is stored, queried, and analyzed. The EAP team enables efficient search and debugging across massive volumes of data and is central to Sentry's strategy to unify telemetry and context for developers.

As an engineering manager on the EAP team, you will lead engineers building and scaling a critical data platform. You will drive architectural evolution, ensure system stability, mentor the team in San Francisco, and influence long-term product and platform strategy.

Responsibilities

• Grow and develop a team of engineers with high expectations for ownership and impact.
• Set technical and strategic direction for the team, balancing short-term stability with long-term architectural evolution.
• Drive development of core EAP features to support complex analytical queries, dynamic routing logic for different fidelity levels, data movement in a cellularized architecture, storage and compute separation, and modern analytical storage patterns.
• 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

• Enjoy mentoring and developing engineers, especially helping junior engineers grow into senior roles.
• Get excited by designing and running large-scale distributed data systems where performance and reliability matter.
• Are passionate about addressing continuous scaling as Sentry’s traffic grows.
• Like tackling complex querying and storage challenges at massive scale.
• Thrive on cross-functional collaboration with product and infrastructure teams.
• Want to work on a highly strategic, visible team that shapes the future of Sentry’s platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
• 4+ years of people management experience, including 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, able 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.

Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications? Sentry encourages applicants 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. 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 applicable to the position (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 providing equal employment opportunities regardless of legally-protected characteristics. Sentry provides reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates with disabilities who require them to perform essential job functions or to seek employment. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact [email protected].