About the role

Sentry.io provides a suite of services to diagnose health problems in their customer's applications. These tools are mission-critical to companies who want to respond effectively in fast-paced markets and always expanding.

We make the development and deployment of these tools a safe and enjoyable experience, by building a scalable platform for engineers to build on top. From ingestion, to storage to reasoning about how the pieces fit together.

As a member of the Platform Team, you will be responsible for building the right architecture for Sentry. We’re converting from a legacy monolith to a more flexible service-oriented world. You will be planning and implementing the switch from our organically grown ingestion pipeline to one that is ready for a much larger Sentry.

If the idea of making a pipeline scale to millions of events a second brings a smile to your face, this could be the job for you.

In this role you will

• Improve the design of our ingestion pipeline and storage systems, ensuring that every engineer is able to build on top of it efficiently for new projects
• Learn from our retrospectives to improve our systems to help developers avoid outages in the future
• Help us break up a legacy Django monolith into smaller, dedicated services

You’ll love this job if you

• Understand how to make developers make the right decisions to ship fast but stable on a shared platform
• Have experience with distributed systems, but are looking for exposure to higher scale. We process hundreds of thousands of events/second — scaling on the storage team isn’t just “put a cache in front of it”
• Have a vigilant eye for the mixing of infrastructure and business logic concerns. We try to push business logic out of our team’s code and into the product
• Want opportunities to improve processes and the status quo. This team is created out of an operational need addressing some long accumulated tech debt and legacy code base

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Proven track record of successfully scaling a platform, particularly in transitioning from a legacy monolith to a more adaptable service-oriented architecture
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and succinctly
• Strong knowledge of replicated and/or distributed systems
• You have experience with some or all of the following systems we leverage:
• Disk-driven Storage Systems: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse
• Memory-driven Storage Systems: Memcached, Redis
• Streaming Platforms: Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Experience with Python or a similar dynamic programming language
• Experience with Rust, Go or a similar compiled programming language

The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $174,000 to $220,000. A successful candidate’s actual base salary amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including, without limitation, the candidate’s work location, education, work and other relevant experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Company’s benefit plans/programs.