Senior Software Engineer, Sentry
Streaming Platform
$190-280k
+ Incentive compensation + equity grants
More information about location
Error tracking and app monitoring software
Open for applications
Error tracking and app monitoring software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$190-280k
+ Incentive compensation + equity grants
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower developer teams to build their best possible software, more quickly and easily.
Role
Who you are
- You enjoy working on distributed systems at scale and care about reliability and performance
- You like building abstractions that make complex infrastructure easier for others to use
- You are motivated by designing systems that balance flexibility for developers with best practices for stability
- You are excited to shape how Sentry handles near real-time ingestion and analytics at scale
- You value being part of a collaborative team where your contributions make a broad impact across the company
- 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 (we primarily use Python and Rust, but experience in similar languages is valuable)
- 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, Arrow or other columnar data processing, or modern streaming SQL engines such as Materialize or RisingWave
What the job involves
- The Streaming Platform team at Sentry is building the next generation of infrastructure that powers our ingestion pipelines and real-time data processing systems
- Our platform ingests, processes, and distributes hundreds of thousands of events per second with low latency and high reliability
- We are creating a system that makes it easy for Sentry engineers to deploy and run streaming applications at scale by simplifying the complexity of Kafka, scaling consumers automatically, and managing state so product teams can focus on building great experiences for developers
- As part of this team, you will work on challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time data processing, and developer experience
- You will help us create a self-service streaming platform that improves stability, accelerates time to production, and reduces operational overhead
- Design, build, and operate components of our 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 control plane for Kafka fleet management and improve efficiency
- Partner with product engineers to ensure our abstractions enable fast, reliable, and consistent ingestion pipelines
- Improve observability, monitoring, and failover for mission-critical real-time systems
Our take
Defective software leads to dissatisfied users, disruptions and potential financial losses for companies. Sentry has created application monitoring and error tracking software to help developers fix errors faster, easier and more cost effectively.
More than 1 million developers and 70,000 organisations worldwide, including the likes of Microsoft, Disney, Atlassian, Cloudflare and Slack, have used Sentry to monitor their code health. The company is well-positioned for significant growth. There is an emerging need for solutions that address holistic application health. As more companies focus on digital to engage with their customers, the reliability of their applications is essential.
The global bug-tracking software market is expected to reach over $600 million by 2026 with an annual growth rate of almost 10%. Further, the company opened another office in Denver in early 2023, expanding its regional presence, as it continues to broaden its market presence.
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Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$90m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$60m
SERIES D
Total funding: $216.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive Compensation + Equity
- 401k Plan
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Commuter Stipend
- Professional Development Stipend
- Health & Wellness Benefits
- Charitable Matching Program
- Flexible PTO
- Paid Parental Leave
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
David Cramer
(Co-Founder & CPO)They started their career as a Software Engineer at Curse, before roles at Enthropia, Disqus, and Dropbox. Having co-founded Sentry in January 2012, they left Dropbox in 2015.
Chris Jennings
(Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer)They have been a Frontend Developer at AgencyTen, Director of Design and UX at Disqus and most recently a Product Designer at GitHub.
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