Senior Software Engineer — Real-Time Issue Detection

Sentry; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter Stipend

Professional Development Stipend

Charitable Matching Program

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Sentry is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Issue Detection team in San Francisco to design, build, and operate real-time decision systems that group billions of events into issues and guide developers during investigations.

You will own end-to-end projects, optimize detection accuracy and latency, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver high-quality experiences. You will also mentor teammates while shaping the product’s future.

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 query latency and correctness are visible to users.
• Own the design and delivery of substantial projects end to end, scoping with product and design, making technical calls, shipping, and instrumenting.
• Contribute to meaningful technical product decisions: grouping quality, search performance, migrations, and backfills against large datasets.
• Champion product quality and user experience: ensure interfaces, error messages, loading states, and edge cases are well designed and measurable.
• Mentor and elevate others, helping engineers grow their skills in systems design, coding practices, and product thinking.

Skills

Full-stack

Distributed systems

Python

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Kafka

Tools

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Kafka

Job description

Sentry is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Issue Detection team in San Francisco to design, build, and operate real-time decision systems that group billions of events into issues and guide developers during investigations.

You will own end-to-end projects, optimize detection accuracy and latency, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver high-quality experiences. You will also mentor teammates while shaping the product’s future.