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# Director, FP&A at Sentry

- **Company:** Sentry
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentry/4067f08e-5229-4af4-9028-a7c69d3791d0

## Job description

## About Sentry

Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

## About this role

At Sentry, Finance plays a critical role in helping the company understand where we are, where we're going, and how to make better decisions along the way. We are looking for a Director of FP&A to build and own the core financial planning and operating rhythms for the company. You will lead company-wide forecasting and planning, management and Board reporting, headcount planning, and FP&A's partnership with Accounting during the close. You will also be a senior business partner to leaders across Sentry, helping translate company strategy into financial plans and operating decisions. This is a hands-on leadership role. Many of the processes you will own are being rebuilt, so we're looking for someone who has designed great FP&A processes—not just inherited and operated them. You'll be expected to get into the details, build where necessary, and quickly develop enough context and trust to run your areas with a high degree of independence. You will report to the VP of Finance & Strategy and manage an FP&A Manager focused on company spend, including cloud and AI infrastructure costs.

In this role you will

- Own Sentry's company-wide forecasting, annual planning, and long-range planning processes, including the consolidated financial model and corporate roll-up.
- Build a clear and repeatable operating cadence around forecasts, budget-to-actual performance, variance analysis, and communication of financial results.
- Partner closely with Accounting during the monthly and quarterly close, providing accrual inputs, budget-to-actual analysis, and variance explanations while Accounting retains ownership of close execution and the integrity of the books.
- Own company-wide headcount planning and forecasting, working closely with People and functional leaders to maintain an accurate view of hiring plans, compensation, and workforce investment.
- Lead the financial component of Board and executive reporting, turning company performance and underlying drivers into clear, decision-ready materials.
- Serve as a trusted finance partner to leaders across the company, helping them understand their businesses, evaluate tradeoffs, and make better resource-allocation decisions.
- Oversee Sentry's approach to cost management, including the FP&A Manager's work on cloud, AI infrastructure, vendor, and other major areas of company spend.
- Improve the systems, models, reporting, and data infrastructure that support FP&A, eliminating unnecessary manual work and increasing the speed and quality of decision-making.
- Build strong working relationships across Finance, Accounting, People, Engineering, and the rest of Sentry so that financial planning is integrated into how the company operates rather than treated as a separate finance exercise.
- Raise the quality bar for FP&A as Sentry continues to grow, identifying what should be standardized, automated, redesigned, or added over time.

You'll love this role if you

- Are a self-sufficient builder who enjoys taking an ambiguous or underdeveloped process, creating structure around it, and making it work.
- Like being close to the details but know how to pull up and communicate what matters to executives.
- Believe great FP&A is as much about business partnership and judgment as it is about building models.
- Enjoy creating simple, durable processes rather than adding complexity or bureaucracy.
- Have high standards for accuracy and analytical rigor, but know when 90% today is more useful than 100% a week from now.
- Want meaningful ownership and are comfortable operating with a high degree of independence in a fast-moving environment.

## Qualifications

- 8+ years of progressive FP&A experience, including leading planning/forecasting processes end to end; prior people-management experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience designing or rebuilding elements of an FP&A/planning function — not just operating within one that already exists.
- Experience partnering with an accounting/controller function on close (BvA, accruals, variance analysis) without owning transactional accounting.
- Experience with NetSuite, Looker (or a comparable BI tool), and a modern planning/EPM platform (e.g. Adaptive Planning, Planful, Pigment, or Vareto); advanced Excel/Google Sheets.
- Experience building and presenting exec-level materials.
- MBA or CPA a plus, not required.

Not sure you meet every qualification? We encourage you to apply anyway. We're interested in people who are excited about the opportunity, have demonstrated an ability to learn quickly, drive change, and want to help us build a great finance function.

## Equal Opportunity at Sentry

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@sentry.io. Want to learn more about how Sentry handles applicant data? Get the details in our [Applicant Privacy Policy](https://sentry.io/careers/applicantprivacy/).

## About Sentry

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sentry is the leading application performance monitoring and error-tracking platform that helps developers diagnose, fix, and optimize code in real-time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: David Cramer, Chris Jennings

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Error Tracking Software
- **Target customers**: B2B; developers and engineering teams at organizations of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises (200K+ organizations)
- **Mission or purpose**: To give every developer the tools to build better software, faster, by making debugging and performance monitoring accessible and indispensable.

## Products & Services
- **Sentry Error Tracking**: The core product — real-time error monitoring that captures, aggregates, and surfaces software bugs across 100+ coding languages and frameworks. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Sentry Performance Monitoring**: Traces slow transactions, API calls, and database queries to help developers optimize application speed and reliability. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Sentry Session Replay**: Video-like replays of user sessions to see exactly what happened before, during, and after an error. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Sentry Profiling**: Continuous code profiling to identify performance bottlenecks at the function level. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Sentry Crash Reporting (Cocoa/Android)**: Native SDKs for mobile error tracking and performance monitoring. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Seer (AI Debugging Agent)**: An AI-powered tool that uses Sentry context (logs, commits, traces) to automatically root-cause issues and generate merge-ready patches. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Sentry MCP Server**: Integrates with coding agents to bring full debugging context directly into the developer's workflow. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last known funding round was $217M total raised)
- **Key Metric**: $217M total funding raised across 6 rounds; processes 190B+ events daily; serves 200K+ customers and 4M+ total users across 146 countries [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/about/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by prominent venture capital firms (specific names not listed on the about page, but the company has raised significant capital). Key integrations include GitHub, Slack, Jira, and Linear. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Codecov in December 2022 to expand into code coverage; processes 790B+ events per month; has 200+ employees across offices in San Francisco, Vienna, Toronto, Amsterdam, New York, and Sydney. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/about/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Developer-First DNA**: Built by developers for developers, with an open-source heritage that fosters deep trust and community adoption.
- **Unified Observability Platform**: Uniquely connects errors, logs, session replays, traces, profiles, and metrics under a single trace ID, providing end-to-end context that competitors like Datadog or New Relic offer as separate products.
- **AI-Native Debugging**: Seer, the AI debugger, goes beyond simple alerting to automatically root-cause issues and generate patches, a significant moat in the AI-assisted development space.
- **Massive Scale & Community**: Loved by millions of developers and 200K organizations, with 190B+ events processed daily, creating a powerful network effect and data advantage for AI models. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/about/)

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Developer Tools**: Deep investment in AI (Seer, AI code review, AI evals) to move from passive monitoring to proactive debugging and automated fixing.
- **Unified Observability**: Continuing to break down silos between errors, performance, logs, and replays into a single, trace-connected experience.
- **Platform Expansion**: Growing beyond error tracking into a full-stack observability and developer productivity platform, including code coverage (via Codecov acquisition) and AI-assisted development.
- **Enterprise Scale**: Building out capabilities for large organizations (enterprise product marketing, solutions engineering, security compliance) while maintaining a strong developer experience.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes "pixels matter" (attention to detail), constructive feedback, iteration, and valuing people from diverse backgrounds. The culture is described as relatively small, fast-growing, and highly influential. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Offers roles across multiple global offices (San Francisco, Toronto, Vienna, Amsterdam, New York, Sydney) with a mix of in-office and remote positions. The careers page lists specific locations for each role. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)
- **Notable Perks**: Competitive compensation + equity, flexible PTO, paid parental leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k plan (US), commuter benefits, professional development stipend, charitable matching program, and a well-stocked office (including "a minimum of six different brands of sparkling water"). [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)
- **Engineering Culture**: High ownership and autonomy; engineers influence product, brand, and culture. The company is known for shipping high-quality code and has a strong open-source ethos. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations. Explicitly states that software should be accessible, starting with making the industry accessible. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)

## Sources
1. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/about/)
2. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)
3. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentry)
5. [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7024898)

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