About the role

Role Overview

Join Sentry as a Staff Software Engineer (Platform). You’ll architect the future of Sentry’s platform, translate business and product strategy into scalable technical blueprints, and drive engineering excellence across the Platform organization.

Responsibilities

Architect the future of Sentry’s platform by converting business needs and product strategy into clear, scalable technical designs.
Lead cross-cutting initiatives across the Platform organization, owning them end-to-end and delivering measurable outcomes.
Promote engineering excellence by mentoring platform engineers, sharing best practices, and raising standards for:
- system design
- scalability
- operational quality
Collaborate broadly across the company and work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional partners.

Requirements

12+ years building large-scale distributed systems.
3+ years in a technical architecture role (or equivalent leadership capacity).
Deep knowledge of modern infrastructure technologies, including:
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Service Mesh
Ability to create production-quality proof-of-concept architectures and write high-quality code.
Proven track record leading cross-team, high-impact engineering projects.
5+ years in cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS, GCP).
Experience with:
- OLAP/OLTP databases
- blob storage
- caching
Strong communication skills; can explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
Experience mentoring senior/staff-level engineers.

Nice to Have

Kafka and real-time streaming frameworks (e.g., Flink, Beam).
Enjoy designing/building platforms that help teams move faster and scale safely.
Comfortable making architectural decisions that influence long-term success, favoring simplicity over novelty.

About Sentry

Sentry is an error tracking and performance monitoring platform. It helps teams observe and debug software by collecting and analyzing application signals, and it operates in the infrastructure/observability domain.