Staff Software Engineer (Issue Workflow)

Join Sentry, a leading software company that helps developers fix bugs faster. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Issue Workflow team, you will architect systems that power Sentry's primary product surface. You will work at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and product engineering, building real-time data pipelines, search backends, and analysis systems. Your work will define what's possible for the most trafficked part of Sentry's platform.

• Architect the systems that power the Issue Workflow experience, focusing on high-scale distributed systems and product engineering.
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap, making strategic calls about architectural direction, technology choices, and technical debt.
• Mentor and elevate other engineers, helping them grow their skills in systems design, coding practices, and product thinking.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 10+ years in full-stack software engineering, ideally Python and Typescript
• Expertise in domain modeling, distributed systems, data stores, message queues
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Kafka is preferred