$190,000 – $400,000
Listed on Sentry’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
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. The full posting is on their site.
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What they ask for
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