Senior Storage Systems Engineer — Rust, APIs & Scale

Sentry; Toronto; On-site; CAD 200,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Paid time off

Group health insurance

Incentive compensation

Job summary

Sentry in Toronto is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Foundational Storage team. You will build and operate stateful storage services, like Objectstore, and create APIs that scale for millions of developers.

Expect to tackle data consistency, performance, and cost-efficiency while writing Rust and Python code and shaping the storage platform. You’ll collaborate with Platform and Infra teams, own latency and availability SLOs, and contribute to open-source efforts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed, stateful systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with object storage, relational databases, and caching systems at production scale.
• An understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, concurrency, and retries.
• Proficiency in Go, C++, Java, or Rust; Python experience is common.
• Experience running services on Kubernetes in a cloud environment; Terraform is a plus.
• Excellent written and spoken English communications.
• Nice to have: experience building shared libraries or internal APIs, data migrations, or performance improvements.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate storage systems used across Sentry, including their configuration and performance tuning.
• Create APIs and abstractions that make storage easy for product teams to use, with best practices for correctness, security, and scale built in.
• Solve storage challenges at scale, including consistency under concurrent access, sharding and rebalancing, and routing reads and writes across storage backends as workloads grow.
• Work with product engineers to choose storage approaches, plan safe migrations, and help teams adopt the tools you build.
• Plan and build with other Platform and Infrastructure teams, including analytical storage and streaming, to deliver a complete, fault-tolerant platform for product teams.
• Improve storage performance and cost efficiency by making better use of backends and resources, while keeping the platform simple for product teams.
• Write code primarily in Rust and Python, with clear user-facing documentation; develop advanced testing scenarios.
• Own latency and availability SLOs for your services, improve monitoring and incident response, and participate in the team’s on-call rotation.

Skills

Rust

Go

C++

Java

Distributed systems fundamentals

English communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Job description

Sentry in Toronto is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Foundational Storage team. You will build and operate stateful storage services, like Objectstore, and create APIs that scale for millions of developers.

Expect to tackle data consistency, performance, and cost-efficiency while writing Rust and Python code and shaping the storage platform. You’ll collaborate with Platform and Infra teams, own latency and availability SLOs, and contribute to open-source efforts.