Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Platform

📋 Description

• • Senior Software Engineer on the Streaming Platform team at Sentry, responsible for designing, building, and operating components of a high-scale real-time data processing infrastructure that powers ingestion pipelines handling hundreds of thousands of events per second.
• • Day-to-day responsibilities include implementing resilient stream processing systems with strong correctness guarantees, building automation and control planes for Kafka fleet management, improving observability and failover mechanisms, and partnering with product engineers to ensure developer-friendly abstractions for reliable data ingestion.
• • Sentry is a mission-driven company building performance and error monitoring tools used by over 100,000 organizations including Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian, backed by $217M in funding, with a hybrid work model requiring in-office collaboration on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays at its global hubs.
• • This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of real-time data infrastructure at scale, gain deep expertise in distributed systems and streaming technologies, and make a broad impact by enabling product teams to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure complexity.