Senior Staff Platform Engineer & Technical Leader

Engg; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

Equity grants

Health insurance

Job summary

Sentry is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for its Platform organization, spanning cloud infrastructure, streaming, and storage. You’ll lead architectural decisions, stay hands‑on with design and prototyping, and mentor senior engineers to elevate cross‑team delivery.

Reporting to the VP of Platform Engineering, you’ll partner with product leaders to evolve the platform, balance tradeoffs, and drive production readiness across services and data systems.

Qualifications

• Proven experience setting technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
• Track record leading complex cross‑team initiatives through production delivery.
• 12+ years of software engineering with hands‑on architecture and operations.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for platform initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Lead changes addressing bottlenecks, reliability risks, and architectural constraints.
• Own cross‑team initiatives from problem definition to rollout and evaluation.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers to strengthen architectural judgment.

Skills

Technical direction

Cross‑team leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Hands‑on coding

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

AWS/GCP

Job description

Sentry is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for its Platform organization, spanning cloud infrastructure, streaming, and storage. You’ll lead architectural decisions, stay hands‑on with design and prototyping, and mentor senior engineers to elevate cross‑team delivery.

Reporting to the VP of Platform Engineering, you’ll partner with product leaders to evolve the platform, balance tradeoffs, and drive production readiness across services and data systems.