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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Sentry· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, California)$260k - $400k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction across Sentry’s Platform organization, leading engineering work spanning infrastructure, streaming, and storage; hands-on with system design, prototyping, and code while mentoring senior engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for platform initiatives spanning multiple teams, connecting architectural decisions to product needs and business priorities.
  • Identify and lead changes addressing system bottlenecks, reliability risks, and architectural constraints.
  • Own cross-team initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, and evaluation.
  • Make tradeoffs across reliability, performance, cost, operational complexity, and delivery speed.
  • Stay hands-on where your contribution matters most, writing code, building prototypes, and helping teams resolve difficult implementation problems.
  • Partner with engineering and product leaders to prioritize platform investments and sequence work across teams.
  • Guide major architectural decisions and help teams resolve disagreements with clear reasoning and evidence.
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers, strengthening their technical judgment and ability to lead across team boundaries.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience setting technical direction across multiple engineering teams, aligning engineering and product leaders on architectural decisions, priorities, and tradeoffs.
  • Track record of leading complex, cross-team initiatives from problem definition through production delivery, with measurable improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, or engineering productivity.
  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial hands-on experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Deep experience designing and operating production systems in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP, with ownership of architectural decisions and their operational outcomes.
  • Strong hands-on software engineering skills, including writing production code and building prototypes to validate architectural approaches.
  • Deep expertise in one or more of the following areas, with working knowledge across others: - Cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code (Kubernetes, Terraform) - Event streaming and real-time processing systems (Kafka, Flink, Beam) - Distributed storage and data systems (OLAP/OLTP databases, blob storage, caching)
  • Ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs, build alignment across teams and senior leadership, and resolve architectural disagreements.
  • Experience mentoring senior and staff engineers, strengthening their architectural judgment, and developing technical leadership across teams.

Skills

Required:Technical leadership across multiple teamsCross-team program ownershipHands-on software engineeringCloud infrastructureContainer orchestration
Nice to have:Event streamingDistributed storage and data systems

Benefits

  • equity included
  • paid time off
  • group health insurance coverage
  • incentive compensation (annual performance bonus up to 20% of base)
Last updated Oct 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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