About Sentry

Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building.

Trusted by 200000 organizations Sentry is todays application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

About the role

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 Sentrys event data such as errors transactions spans profiles replays and metrics is stored queried and analyzed. It also powers Sentrys 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 Sentrys 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 Sentrys 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 Sentrys long-term product and platform strategy.

In this role you will

• 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

Youll love this job if you

• 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 Sentrys 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 Sentrys platform

Qualifications

• 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

The base salary range (or hourly wage range if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $220000 to $280000. A successful candidates actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including without limitation the candidates work location education work and other relevant experience skills and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentrys employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidates position (including incentive compensation equity grants paid time off and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Companys benefit plans/programs.

Equal Opportunity at Sentry

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity veteran status or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone everywhere should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.

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