Engineering Manager, Sentry
Data Platform
$220-300k
+ incentive compensation and equity
Application performance monitoring & error tracking software
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Application performance monitoring & error tracking software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-300k
+ incentive compensation and 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 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 tackling the challenges of continuously 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 team with significant visibility that shapes the future of Sentry's platform
- 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering, including 4+ years of people management experience with 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 with the ability 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
What the job involves
- Sentry provides developer-first observability to over 4 million developers worldwide. The Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team is at the heart of that mission: it powers how all of Sentry's event data, such as errors, transactions, spans, profiles, replays, and metrics, is stored, queried, and analyzed. It also powers Sentry's latest AI push, Seer
- The EAP team makes it possible for developers to efficiently search and debug across massive volumes of data, providing the context needed to understand and fix issues quickly. This team is also a cornerstone of Sentry's long-term strategy to become a context assembly and telemetry platform that unifies different signals so developers can see the complete picture
- As an engineering manager on the EAP team, you will lead a group of engineers building and scaling one of Sentry's most critical data platforms. You will be responsible for driving architectural evolution, ensuring system stability, and mentoring a talented team. This is a highly visible leadership role with direct ties to Sentry's long-term product and platform strategy
- Grow and develop a team of engineers with high expectations for ownership and impact
- Set the technical and strategic direction for the team, balancing short-term stability with long-term architectural evolution
- Drive development of core EAP features, including support for complex analytical queries, dynamic routing logic across fidelity levels, storage and compute separation, and modern patterns for analytical storage
- Ensure EAP can support the workload demands of AI agents and MCP servers that unlock new AI capabilities for Sentry
- 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
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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