Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

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About Sentry

Bad software is everywhere, and Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster. Sentry provides performance and error monitoring tools used by companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian to spend less time fixing bugs and more time building products. The company embraces a hybrid work model with anchor in-office days (Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays).

As a member of the Developer Infrastructure team, you will improve the delivery process and overall developer experience at Sentry. You will support a growing engineering organization by balancing process stability, artifact reliability, developer efficiency, and effective communication. You will help new engineers ramp up quickly, guiding them to their first production deployment and equipping them to contribute with confidence.

Responsibilities

• Optimize and scale Sentry’s delivery process to ensure engineers can ship high-quality code quickly and confidently.
• Learn from retrospectives and create tooling and process changes to help developers avoid outages.
• Develop deployment processes and tools to ensure software is delivered to customers safely and efficiently.
• Improve onboarding by automating setup tasks, introducing engineers to key tools and processes, and accelerating their first successful deployment.
• Define and monitor key delivery metrics, and respond to major degradations or anomalies in service.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience using Docker in production environments and for local development.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems.
• A track record of customizing or building developer tooling.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Enjoy customizing tools, automating repetitive tasks, and collaborating directly with engineers to gather feedback and improve their experience.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $180,000 to $280,000 (the actual base salary will be determined by factors including work location, experience, skills, and job-related knowledge).
• Eligible to participate in employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the position, including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage. See Sentry Careers / Benefits for more details.

Workplace & Team

• Location: Seattle, Washington, US.
• Workplace type: Hybrid (anchor in-office days: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays).
• Team: Developer Infrastructure within Engineering.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations for candidates and employees with disabilities. For accommodation requests, contact [email protected].