Senior Software Engineer, Sentry

Streaming Platform

$190-280k

A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position including incentive compensation amd equity grants

SQL

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Java

Kafka

Rust

Spark

Flink

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office

Error tracking and app monitoring software

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Error tracking and app monitoring software

201-500 employees

B2BSecuritySaaS

Be an early applicant

$190-280k

A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position including incentive compensation amd equity grants

SQL

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Java

Kafka

Rust

Spark

Flink

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office

201-500 employees

B2BSecuritySaaS

Company mission

To empower developer teams to build their best possible software, more quickly and easily.

Job

Company

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.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

28% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Trustpilot (3.2)

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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