Senior Software Engineer, Streaming

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About Sentry

Bad software is everywhere, and Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster so we can get back to enjoying technology.

With more than $217 million in funding and 100,000+ organizations using Sentry, the company builds performance and error monitoring tools that help teams 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.

Role summary

The Streaming Platform team at Sentry builds the next generation of infrastructure that powers ingestion pipelines and real-time data processing systems. The platform ingests, processes, and distributes hundreds of thousands of events per second with low latency and high reliability. The team’s goal is to make it easy for Sentry engineers to deploy and run streaming applications at scale by simplifying Kafka, scaling consumers automatically, and managing state so product teams can focus on building developer-facing experiences.

As a member of this team you will work at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time data processing, and developer experience to create a self-service streaming platform that improves stability, accelerates time to production, and reduces operational overhead.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate components of the Streaming Platform, including Kafka, the streaming runtime, high-level APIs, and developer-facing abstractions.
• Implement resilient, high-throughput stream processing systems that handle unbounded datasets with strong correctness guarantees (delivery, checkpointing, watermarking, and more).
• Build scalable automation and a control plane for Kafka fleet management and improve operational efficiency.
• Partner with product engineers to ensure platform abstractions enable fast, reliable, and consistent ingestion pipelines.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and failover for mission-critical real-time systems.

Requirements / Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with background in distributed systems, data infrastructure, or real-time streaming.
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Rust, Go, or Java (Sentry primarily uses Python and Rust).
• Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of partitioning, watermarks, windowing, stateful/stateless processing, and delivery guarantees.
• Experience building and operating systems in cloud environments such as Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP.
• Nice to have: experience with ClickHouse, Apache Arrow or other columnar data processing, or modern streaming SQL engines such as Materialize or RisingWave.

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $180,000 to $280,000. A successful candidate’s actual base salary (or hourly wage) will be determined by factors including work location, education, 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 & Accessibility

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