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Engineering Manager, Events Analytics Platform

Sentry· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, California)$220k - $400kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Engineering manager leading the Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team at Sentry, responsible for architectural evolution, scalability, and mentoring engineers to build and scale a critical data platform powering event data storage, querying, and analytics including AI-related capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • 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

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 (e.g., ClickHouse, Pinot, 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

Skills

Required:People leadership and team developmentDistributed data systemsArchitectural strategyQuery optimization
Nice to have:Python

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Performance bonus: up to 15% of base salary
  • Comprehensive employee benefit plans (health insurance, time off, etc.)
Last updated Oct 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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