Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Platform

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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.

• 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.

The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $155000 to $400000 USD plus up to 20% bonus. A successful candidates actual base salary 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.

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