Senior Software Engineer, Platform

• Design, build, and operate scalable systems that store and process mission-critical data from customer applications
• Collaborate with platform and product engineering teams teams to identify and build powerful abstractions that enable everyone at Sentry to ship software at scale with ease
• Solve intricate problems related to stateful systems, performance optimization, and high-throughput data processing
• Leverage multiple programming languages and technologies — primarily Rust and Python — to address critical system-level challenges
• Ensure the correctness and maintainability of your work through comprehensive unit and integration testing, complemented by clear documentation for colleagues and customers
• Partner with Infrastructure teams to architect resilient and fault-tolerant solutions that meet the highest operational standards
• Contribute to the stability and operational health of our services by participating in an on-call rotation

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with background in distributed systems, data infrastructure, or streaming applications
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Rust, Python, or Go. We primarily use Rust and Python, but experience in similar languages is valuable
• Experience building and operating systems in cloud environments such as Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP
• Experience building durable services with graceful degradation and self-healing infrastructure, such as through load balancing, redundancy and fail-overs, data replication, and similar
• Good written and spoken English communication skills

Beneficial: experience with cloud and object storage, distributed databases, or caching systems

• incentive compensation
• equity grants
• paid time off
• group health insurance coverage