Senior Dev Infra Engineer — Build Scalable Dev Tools (Flexible PTO)

Sentry; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter Stipend

Professional Development Stipend

Charitable Matching Program

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Sentry in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Developer Infrastructure. You will build and scale the tooling that powers local and cloud-based environments, CI/CD, and the golden path for new services and libraries.

The role focuses on reliable deployment pipelines, SDK publishing tooling, metrics and dashboards, and supporting AI coding agents in our systems. You’ll collaborate with engineers across Sentry to improve developer experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience leading the full development lifecycle of complex projects.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration in production.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and what makes them fast and reliable at scale.
• A track record of building or significantly improving developer tooling or infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering teams outside your own, building buy-in for standards, tooling, or process changes without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications? We encourage you to apply anyway. We're interested in people who are excited about this opportunity and eager to grow.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the tooling that powers local and cloud-based developer environments
• Improve CI for our codebases and CD for our deployment pipeline, keeping both fast and reliable as the org and its infrastructure grow
• Define and evolve the golden path for building new services and libraries at Sentry
• Contribute to our SDK and library publishing tooling and release processes
• Build the metrics, dashboards, and flaky test detection that give the org visibility into deployment health and CI reliability
• Build tooling that gives engineers, and the AI coding agents they work with, the context they need to work effectively within Sentry's systems and conventions
• Partner directly with engineers across Sentry to understand where infrastructure and developer experience need to improve

Skills

Python

Docker

CI/CD

Communication

Systems thinking

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Sentry in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Developer Infrastructure. You will build and scale the tooling that powers local and cloud-based environments, CI/CD, and the golden path for new services and libraries.

The role focuses on reliable deployment pipelines, SDK publishing tooling, metrics and dashboards, and supporting AI coding agents in our systems. You’ll collaborate with engineers across Sentry to improve developer experience.