# Senior Software Engineer, Foundational Storage

Hiring organization: [Sentry](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/sentry)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/051c224e-7514-433d-8beb-c4962b14b2fb

Listed on Sentry's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 190000 – 400000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads the design and operation of Sentry's storage infrastructure—the databases, caches, and object stores that power the platform—and builds the APIs that make those systems easy for product teams to use. You'll tackle distributed systems challenges like consistency and sharding while mentoring other engineers and owning the reliability of systems serving millions of developers.

_Our summary, not Sentry's wording._

## Skills named

C++, Go, Java, Kubernetes, Python, Relational Databases, Rust, Terraform

## Required

- 5+ years building and operating distributed, stateful systems in production
- Hands-on production experience with object storage, relational databases, and caching systems
- Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals including consistency, concurrency, and failure scenarios
- Proficiency in a systems language (Go, C++, Java, or Rust) and comfort with Python
- Experience running services on Kubernetes in a cloud environment with observability and incident response
- Good written and spoken English for technical communication and documentation

## Nice to have

- Experience with key-value or wide-column stores
- Familiarity with Terraform
- Experience building shared libraries or internal APIs
- Experience migrating data between systems
- Experience improving system performance and cost

Apply on Sentry's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentry/ccbee884-5fc1-492e-ba18-df568587ccc2/application