Senior Engineering Manager, Sentry
Event Streaming
$220-260k
Offers equity
Error tracking and app monitoring software
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Error tracking and app monitoring software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-260k
Offers equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower developer teams to build their best possible software, more quickly and easily.
Role
Who you are
- Are passionate about real-time streaming systems and building platforms that enable others to move faster
- Enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, turning them into clean, usable abstractions and promoting new streaming application paradigms
- Value cross-functional collaboration and thrive in hybrid, in-person settings with engineers across functions, levels, and geographies
- Have a long-term vision for platform engineering and are excited by the opportunity to take on broader organizational scope over time
- Take pride in building strong, healthy teams and enabling them to lead high-impact, multi-year initiatives
- Want to be part of a thoughtful, highly technical team that cares about long-term system health and developer happiness
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with a focus on backend, distributed systems, or infrastructure
- 4+ years of engineering management experience, including growing and managing teams of 10 or more engineers
- Experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager leading the architecture, development, and long-term evolution of large-scale, real-time event processing systems
- Familiarity with streaming systems like Kafka, Flink, Beam, Spark Streaming, or similar technologies
- Strong technical communication skills and a track record of effective cross-team and leadership collaboration
- Proven experience delivering and owning multi-year engineering efforts in a leadership or tech lead capacity
- Comfortable working across org boundaries and aligning product, infra, and platform priorities
What the job involves
- Sentry's Event Streaming Platform is one of the company's most critical technical pillars
- Every Sentry product relies on fast, reliable stream processing to power real-time insights, automation, and alerting
- This team is building the platform that ingests, processes, and routes billions of events per day, enabling developers across Sentry to build on top of streaming data with confidence and speed
- As the Senior Engineering Manager for the Event Streaming team, you'll lead a group of talented engineers across multiple regions and time zones, with a range of seniority levels
- You'll be responsible for technical vision, team health, system reliability, and cross-functional partnership
- This is a high-ownership role with influence across platform architecture, developer experience, and the broader engineering org
- You’ll work closely with experienced engineers and leaders across Infrastructure and Product to shape the foundation of how Sentry handles real-time data at scale
- This role also presents a strong growth opportunity as we expect this leader to take on additional charters and teams over time as the Platform organization expands
- Lead a globally distributed team working on one of the most foundational systems at Sentry
- Nurture and grow engineers at different levels, providing support through coaching, mentorship, and career development
- Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on ownership, learning, and delivery
- Drive the evolution of Sentry's event streaming platform, contributing to system architecture and owning key technical decisions
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to build scalable APIs and developer-friendly primitives that abstract away the complexity of streaming infrastructure
- Own the reliability, performance, and delivery of the team's roadmap while fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration
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. 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 has also opened another office in Denver in early 2023, expanding its regional presence, and has announced additional functionality in its platform, all of which bodes well for Sentry's future.
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
- 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
(CTO)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
(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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