Sentry
Senior Software Engineer, Issue Detection
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco, California
Employer listed it 9 days ago · Added 4 days ago
First listed 9 days ago and still open.
Salary
$155,000–$400,000
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco, California
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco, California, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco, California, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
The quotes above are the employer's own words; the reading is ours. Always check the original listing and employment terms before working from another country.
About the role
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
Sentry's issue platform processes billions of events every day to help millions of developers find and fix bugs. The hard part is deciding which events point to a problem, which belong together, and what a developer needs to know to investigate.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Issue Detection team, you'll design, build, and operate the systems that make those decisions. You'll work on real-time processing pipelines, monitors, and analysis systems that detect problems and turn them into issues. The work combines distributed systems with product engineering. Choices about detection accuracy and processing latency affect which problems developers see and how soon they can act.
You'll help shape how developers monitor their applications and how Sentry groups related events into issues. You'll also build the context developers and AI agents need to investigate what went wrong. Keeping these systems reliable and fast as Sentry grows is part of the job, alongside making the issues they produce more useful.
In this role you will
Build and scale features on a product surface handling billions of events daily, where both query latency and correctness are immediately visible to users.
Own the design and delivery of substantial projects end to end, scoping alongside product and design, making the technical calls within your scope, shipping, and instrumenting what you ship so the team can measure it.
You will contribute to meaningful technical product decisions : grouping quality, search performance, migrations and backfills against enormous datasets, and making the surface work well for both humans and agents.
Champion product quality and user experience. Build features that don't just work—they delight. You understand that milliseconds matter in the developer experience. You sweat the details of interfaces, error messages, loading states, and edge cases. You instrument everything so the team can measure and improve.
Mentor and elevate others . You've helped engineers grow their skills. You celebrate wins and learn from failures alongside your teammates.
You’ll love this job if you
Are a distributed systems engineer who understands the realities of high-scale architectures. You know about eventual consistency, partitioning strategies, caching layers, and query optimization. You've debugged enough systems at scale that you now know to design for failure and build systems that degrade gracefully.
Are product-minded and understand that great engineering serves users. You collaborate effectively with Product and Design, offering technical perspectives that shape better products. You can explain technical constraints in user-centric terms. You get excited about making developers' lives better, not just solving technical puzzles.
Have strong full-stack instincts . While this role is backend-heavy, you understand the entire system from data ingestion to what renders in the browser. You know enough about frontend performance, API design, and user experience to make good architectural decisions that consider the whole picture.
Include and uplift others. You've helped engineers grow their skills in systems design, coding practices, and product thinking. You're generous with knowledge and patient in explaining complex concepts. You celebrate wins and learn from failures alongside your teammates.
Qualifications
5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, ideally Python and TypeScript
Strong domain modeling skills, with working experience in distributed systems, data stores, and message queues
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, or Kafka is preferred
Equal Opportunity at Sentry
Requirements
- ·5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, ideally Python and TypeScript
- ·Strong domain modeling skills, with working experience in distributed systems, data stores, and message queues
- ·Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- ·Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, or Kafka is preferred
- ·Equal Opportunity at Sentry
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Sentry, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
Listing sourced from Company boards.
Similar roles
Other open software roles with comparable remote rules.
Free to apply, no account needed.
$155,000–$400,000 · You'll be taken to the employer's careers page.