About the Position

Software Engineer, Streaming Platform

Location

San Francisco, California

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

Compensation

$155K – $190K • Offers Equity

Our openings may span more than one career level. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, location, and market demands.

We're always willing to offer above our posted ranges for exceptional talent. If you feel like Sentry is the right place for you, apply and let's make it work!

About Sentry

Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building.

Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

About the Role

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.

This role is based in San Francisco, with three days per week in the office to work closely with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

At least 2-3 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 building and operating systems in cloud environments such as Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP.

Nice to Have

Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or similar tools.

We Offer

Competitive salary range of $155,000 to $190,000 USD.
Participation in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage).
Opportunity to work in a collaborative and inclusive environment.

Equal Opportunity at Sentry

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.

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Software Engineer, Streaming Platform

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