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Staff Software Engineer, Issues

Sentry· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, California)$240k - $400kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer on the Issues team responsible for architecting and delivering high-scale distributed systems that power Sentry’s Issue Workflow platform, including real-time data pipelines, search backends, and analysis systems at billions of events scale.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical strategy and roadmap. Partner with engineering leadership, product, and design to shape the multi-quarter technical vision for Issue Workflow platform. Make strategic calls about architectural direction, technology choices, and technical debt. Ensure the team is building a strong foundation to scale with Sentry's growth.
  • Solve complex performance and scalability challenges.
  • Champion product quality and user experience. Build features that delight and optimize interfaces, error messages, loading states, and edge cases. Instrument everything to measure and improve.
  • Mentor and elevate others. Help engineers grow their skills and celebrate wins and learn from failures.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in full-stack software engineering, ideally Python and Typescript
  • Expertise in domain modeling, distributed systems, data stores, message queues
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Kafka is preferred

Skills

Required:distributed systemsfull-stack understanding

Benefits

  • Equity (offers equity)
  • Bonus up to 20%
  • Competitive compensation (USD)
Last updated Oct 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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