Senior Security Engineer, Sentry
Application & Platform Security
CA$200-295k
Eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position including incentive compensation, and equity grants
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Error tracking and app monitoring software
Open for applications
Error tracking and app monitoring software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
CA$200-295k
Eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position including incentive compensation, and equity grants
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower developer teams to build their best possible software, more quickly and easily.
Role
Who you are
- Enjoy operating cross-functionally, building relationships, and influencing with technical expertise, and shaping how security gets done across a fast-moving engineering organization
- Get excited when something new lands on your desk, be it an interesting vulnerability, a sweet exploit, a novel agentic architecture, an unfamiliar cloud primitive, or a bug class you haven't seen before
- Love working in an developer-forward culture where your colleagues are builders who care deeply about code quality and customer satisfaction
- Reach for automation first, you'd rather build a scalable, systematic solution to a security problem than solve it manually a hundred times
- Thrive with real ownership, you prefer to build and drive work end-to-end, you're energized by the autonomy that comes with being on a small, high-trust team
- 5+ years of industry experience designing, building, securing complex applications and large-scale distributed cloud systems
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience
- Direct experience with security reviews, SDLC practices, secure CI/CD, architecture reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability management, bug bounty and responsible disclosure programs
- Experienced and comfortable programming in at least one language, must be comfortable reviewing Python, Typescript, Go, Rust applications
- Familiarity with using distributed cloud technology (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, etc.) and securing those technologies (cloud networking, IAM, etc.)
- A collaborative approach to problem solving paired with strong written and verbal communication
- Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications? We encourage you to apply anyway. We're interested in people are excited about this opportunity and eager to grow
What the job involves
- The Security Team is responsible for securing all things Sentry: our customers, our code, and everything in between
- We are a small but growing team with broad scope, high trust, and the autonomy to tackle hard security problems with creativity and an engineering mindset
- We work at a company with a strong developer culture, building a product that millions of developers genuinely love and rely on
- That context shapes everything about how we operate
- As a Senior Security Engineer on this team, you'll work across application and platform security domains
- You’ll own and shape the practices that keep Sentry secure as we grow: security reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and embedding secure coding practices into an engineering organization that cares about doing things right
- You'll partner closely with product and engineering teams to influence how features are designed and built from the start
- You will work as a technical collaborator who helps make the secure path the obvious one
- As Sentry expands our agentic product capabilities and development practices, you'll also find yourself at the frontier of a new set of security challenges
- Own and mature Sentry's security review program. From secure code review, to architecture review, and threat modeling. You will build processes, tooling, and culture which makes security a natural part of how we ship and operate
- Influence mature vulnerability management practices. Intake, triage, prioritization, remediation tracking, and management of our bug bounty and responsible disclosure program
- Champion secure-by-design principles. Partner with engineering and product teams to embed security early in the development lifecycle and integrate security tooling into developer and CI/CD workflows
- Validate and reproduce application and infrastructure security findings. Scanning, manual testing, coordinate penetration testing and vulnerability validation across Sentry's application, SDKs and cloud-based platform
- Evaluate and respond to emerging threats relevant to application security Sentry. We build and operate a complex application and cloud environment, including the novel attack surface introduced by Sentry's agentic product features and AI-assisted engineering practices
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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