Senior Software Engineer, Core Product

Sentry•San Francisco, CA

64d•$200,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on Sentry's Issues team, you'll join a cross-functional team of engineers responsible for our most used product experience. This is a high-impact tech lead role; Errors and Issues are the main entry point for users to Sentry. We build and maintain features including: issue detection and search, error grouping, and issue workflows as well as status updates and many of their downstream effects. In this role you will also help define the future direction of a product that is loved by millions of developers worldwide. Collaborating directly with other teams throughout the company, becoming a member of our backend technical steering committee, establishing ownership of a feature set and growing your technical skills are just a few of the other activities you can expect from this role.

Requirements

8+ years professional engineering experience
6+ years of experience working on and operating large-scale distributed systems
3+ years of experience with Python and Django or similar web framework
Solid understanding and experience with distributed systems, data modeling, and applying tradeoffs
Experience with end-to-end ownership of a large feature or system
Experience writing and presenting technical documentation
Team level mentorship and leadership experience on large projects

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Rust or other system-level programming language is a plus
Familiarity with TypeScript or JavaScript is a plus

Responsibilities

Build and maintain features/integrations with other SaaS services using Django (Python) in our open-source codebase.
Work closely with product management and the larger engineering organization to define, implement and ship new features.
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?).
Raise the team's technical aptitude through code review and mentorship.
Tech lead high value initiatives and implement high quality features driving engineering excellence.
Collaborate with technical writing staff to create user-focused documentation that supports new product features.

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