Senior Real-Time Distributed Systems Engineer

Showcify; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Sentry is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Issue Detection team to design, build, and operate real-time systems that decide which events indicate problems. You’ll work on distributed pipelines, monitors, and analysis to group events into actionable issues and improve investigation context.

You’ll shape product decisions, optimize performance, and ensure reliability as Sentry handles billions of events daily.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, ideally Python and TypeScript
• Strong domain modeling skills, with working experience in distributed systems, data stores, and message queues
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, or Kafka is preferred

Responsibilities

• Build and scale features on a product surface handling billions of events daily, where both query latency and correctness are immediately visible to users.
• Own the design and delivery of substantial projects end to end, scoping alongside product and design, making the technical calls within your scope, shipping, and instrumenting what you ship so the team can measure it.
• You will contribute to meaningful technical product decisions: grouping quality, search performance, migrations and backfills against enormous datasets, and making the surface work well for both humans and agents.
• Champion product quality and user experience. Build features that don't just work—they delight. You understand that milliseconds matter in the developer experience. You sweat the details of interfaces, error messages, loading states, and edge cases. You instrument everything so the team can measure and improve.
• Mentor and elevate others. You've helped engineers grow their skills. You celebrate wins and learn from failures alongside your teammates.

Skills

Full-stack Python/TypeScript

Distributed systems

Data stores & queues

Excellent communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

ClickHouse

Job description

Sentry is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Issue Detection team to design, build, and operate real-time systems that decide which events indicate problems. You’ll work on distributed pipelines, monitors, and analysis to group events into actionable issues and improve investigation context.

You’ll shape product decisions, optimize performance, and ensure reliability as Sentry handles billions of events daily.