Senior Software Engineer, Sentry
Control Plane
$190-280k
+ Equity
Application performance monitoring & error tracking software
Open for applications
Application performance monitoring & error tracking software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$190-280k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower developer teams to build their best possible software, more quickly and easily.
Role
Who you are
- Enjoy building foundational distributed systems that power an entire platform
- Care deeply about correctness, reliability, and safe infrastructure primitives
- Like designing systems that coordinate state and data across large distributed environments
- Prefer solving architectural problems rather than product feature work
- Want to shape how a global platform evolves as it scales
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar role
- Strong proficiency with Python; experience with Rust is a plus
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
- Strong understanding of replication, consistency models, and service coordination
- Experience building infrastructure services or platform APIs used by multiple teams
- Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience operating containerized systems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Track record of operating production systems with strong ownership
- Strong written communication skills and ability to document platform systems clearly
What the job involves
- Sentry.io provides a suite of services to diagnose health problems in their customers’ applications. These tools are mission-critical to companies who want to respond effectively in fast-paced markets
- We make the development and deployment of these tools a safe and enjoyable experience, by maintaining a succinct and helpful continuous integration environment and an informative deployment pipeline
- The Centralized Tenancy and Routing Layer (CTRL) team builds and operates the foundational infrastructure that defines customer boundaries and coordinates lifecycle operations across Sentry’s distributed architecture
- These systems power how customers are managed and how services communicate and replicate data safely across our ecosystem
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the CTRL team, you’ll design and operate the core platform primitives that make this architecture possible
- Your work will focus on distributed coordination, cross-cell routing, replication infrastructure, and lifecycle orchestration for the customer environment
- This role sits at the heart of Sentry’s platform architecture—building the control systems that ensure the platform operates safely and correctly at global scale
- The work requires strong engineering judgment and deep distributed systems thinking
- You’ll design systems where correctness and reliability are critical, and build abstractions that many teams depend on but rarely see directly
- Ultimately, you’ll help build the infrastructure that enables Sentry’s SaaS platform to scale safely across a distributed, multi-cell architecture
- Build and enhance the control plane systems that manage customer identity, placement, and lifecycle across a multi-cell architecture
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of mission-critical control plane services
- Partner with engineering teams to provide safe infrastructure primitives and standards for cell-compatible systems
- Help operate critical infrastructure through incident response and continuous improvement
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 organizations worldwide, including the likes of Microsoft, Disney, Atlassian, Cloudflare and Slack, have used Sentry to monitor their code health. And the company is well-positioned for significant growth as 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 the end of 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
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Commuter Stipend
- Professional Development Stipend
- Health & Wellness Benefits
- Charitable Matching Program
- Flexible PTO
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401k Plan
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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