Staff AI Developer Tooling Engineer

Sentry; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter Stipend

Professional Development Stipend

Charitable Matching Program

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Sentry is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own AI-assisted coding within its Platform Engineering organization. You will build AI coding agents, expose workflows via APIs, and integrate tools to enhance our codebase with minimal human intervention.

Your work spans infrastructure, backend systems, and developer tooling. You’ll lead cross-team initiatives, collaborate with engineers, and drive improvements in AI-generated pull requests, automation, and maintenance workflows from SF-based

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with production systems.
• Experience building developer tools, infrastructure, or automation.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools and agents.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and system design.
• Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives.
• Clear written and verbal communication to engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Set priorities for AI-assisted development at Sentry, using engineer feedback and workflow data to identify where agents would provide the most value.
• Make internal developer systems accessible through APIs and build integrations enabling agents to complete workflows across those systems.
• Build context systems and agent execution tooling, including tool access, permissions, checkpoints, retries, and logging.
• Develop automated checks, evaluations, and feedback loops to improve the correctness, maintainability, and review readiness of AI-generated pull requests.
• Automate recurring work such as security dependency upgrades, minor bug fixes, and routine maintenance.
• Improve supporting developer workflows, including issue triage and CI/CD, where they limit agent effectiveness or create repetitive work for engineers.
• Lead changes across engineering teams, build agreement on priorities, and measure whether the tools reduce manual work and improve delivery.

Skills

AI coding tools

System design

Cross‑team leadership

Strong communication

Production systems ownership

Tools

CI/CD systems

Internal APIs

Code review tooling

Agent workflows

Job description

Sentry is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own AI-assisted coding within its Platform Engineering organization. You will build AI coding agents, expose workflows via APIs, and integrate tools to enhance our codebase with minimal human intervention.

Your work spans infrastructure, backend systems, and developer tooling. You’ll lead cross-team initiatives, collaborate with engineers, and drive improvements in AI-generated pull requests, automation, and maintenance workflows from SF-based