Senior Software Engineer, Backend Issue Workflow
About The Position
The Issue Workflow team is responsible for Sentry's core debugging experience, which includes alerts, issue search, and issue details. These are the most visited pages on our product and they are critical to the daily workflow for millions of software engineers across the world. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the team. You will work on backend systems that processes billions of queries per day, tackle challenging distributed system problems, and ideate/build new product experiences for Sentry to interoperate with humans and AI agents. In this role you will Collaborate with EM, PM and Product Designer to ideate, execute, validate and iterate quickly on new features, and join customer calls to get first-hand feedback on your work. Build and maintain features using React (TypeScript) and Django (Python) in our open-source codebase . Have opportunities to work on high-impact projects that touch the entire stack: understanding the event ingestion pipeline; delving into search and storage systems ; and surfacing that data to our customers on our backend and frontend codebases (did we mention that almost all of them are open-source ?). Work closely with AI/ML, infrastructure, and other EPD teams to ideate, design and build the next generation of Sentry. Build tests and set up monitoring for your work to maintain a high engineering standard for Sentry. Raise the team’s technical aptitude through code review and mentorship.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, or related field, and/or relevant experience.
- Strong experience with Django/Python (or similar frameworks and languages).
- Familiarity with React/Typescript (or similar frontend frameworks and languages).
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience working on innovative product-focused teams/companies.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with EM, PM and Product Designer to ideate, execute, validate and iterate quickly on new features, and join customer calls to get first-hand feedback on your work.
- Build and maintain features using React (TypeScript) and Django (Python) in our open-source codebase
- Have opportunities to work on high-impact projects that touch the entire stack: understanding the event ingestion pipeline; delving into search and storage systems ; and surfacing that data to our customers on our backend and frontend codebases (did we mention that almost all of them are open-source ?).
- Work closely with AI/ML, infrastructure, and other EPD teams to ideate, design and build the next generation of Sentry.
- Build tests and set up monitoring for your work to maintain a high engineering standard for Sentry.
- Raise the team’s technical aptitude through code review and mentorship.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
