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# Engineering Manager, Data Platform at Sentry

- **Company:** Sentry
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentry/f9f3c913-26ef-45a2-a77f-79ae473c1a85

## 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 the role

Sentry helps over 4 million developers understand and resolve issues in their applications. Behind every error, performance trace, replay, and log is a large-scale data platform responsible for storing, querying, and analyzing massive volumes of telemetry data.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team, which builds and operates the distributed data systems powering Sentry's products. The team manages petabytes of data and develops high-performance analytical infrastructure using technologies like ClickHouse, enabling fast, complex queries across billions of records.

As Sentry grows, so do the technical challenges. The team is evolving its storage and query infrastructure to support increasing data volumes, more complex analytical workloads, and unified access to different types of telemetry data. EAP also provides the data foundation for Seer, Sentry's AI-powered debugging agent, enabling AI systems to access the production context needed to investigate and resolve issues.

In this role, you'll lead a team of engineers tackling complex distributed systems challenges while balancing architectural improvements with the reliability and performance of production systems. You'll bring strong technical judgment, guide engineering decisions, and work closely with product engineering teams to build capabilities that directly impact the developer experience.

This is an opportunity to lead a critical part of Sentry's infrastructure, solve challenging problems at scale, and shape how developers and AI-powered tools interact with application data.

## What you'll do

- Lead and develop a team of engineers working on large-scale distributed data systems, fostering technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, and professional growth.
- Drive technical execution and architectural decisions across EAP's storage and query infrastructure, balancing scalability, reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Build and evolve analytical data systems supporting complex queries, high-throughput workloads, and efficient access to petabytes of event data.
- Guide the evolution of EAP's architecture, including query optimization, storage and compute separation, and the unification of different event types into a common analytical platform.
- Own the operational health of the platform, leading efforts to improve reliability, troubleshoot production issues, manage incidents, and address scaling challenges.
- Partner with product engineering teams to understand their technical requirements, make informed tradeoffs, and deliver platform capabilities that support new product experiences.
- Support Sentry's AI-powered capabilities by ensuring the platform efficiently serves the analytical workloads and production context required by Seer and other AI-driven experiences.
- Set clear priorities and drive projects from design through production, helping the team execute effectively while managing competing technical and product needs.

You'll love this job if you

- Enjoy leading engineers while staying closely involved in technical discussions, architecture, and complex problem-solving.
- Get excited about building and operating large-scale distributed systems where performance, reliability, and efficiency matter.
- Have a strong interest in analytical databases, storage engines, query systems, and the engineering challenges behind processing massive volumes of data.
- Like working through difficult technical tradeoffs and turning ambiguous requirements into practical engineering solutions.
- Take pride in building reliable production systems, understanding how they behave under load, and continuously improving their performance.
- Enjoy collaborating with product engineering teams and understanding how infrastructure decisions influence the end-user experience.
- Want to lead a team whose work directly supports Sentry's core products and growing AI-powered capabilities.

## Qualifications

- Significant professional software engineering experience, including experience managing and developing engineers, leading technical projects, and driving engineering execution.
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, data infrastructure, analytical databases, or large-scale backend systems.
- Hands-on experience building, scaling, or operating complex data-intensive systems, with depth in at least one of the following:
- Analytical database infrastructure: Operating, scaling, optimizing, or maintaining OLAP systems such as ClickHouse, Apache Pinot, Apache Druid, or similar technologies in production.
- Complex distributed data platforms: Designing and building sophisticated systems using analytical databases or distributed storage technologies as foundational components, with meaningful ownership of the underlying architecture, performance, and reliability.
- Experience making architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs involving system scalability, performance, reliability, or operational complexity.
- Demonstrated ownership of production systems, including troubleshooting, incident response, performance optimization, and operational improvements.
- Experience leading engineering projects from technical design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operations.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders and translate technical requirements into actionable engineering priorities.

Bonus points for:

- Experience with ClickHouse, Pinot, Druid, or other column-oriented analytical databases.
- Experience with query optimization, analytical storage architecture, or high-throughput data processing.
- Experience building infrastructure for observability, telemetry, developer tools, or event-driven applications.
- Experience working closely with product engineering teams to develop infrastructure supporting customer-facing features.
- Proficiency with Python, Rust, or similar backend programming languages.

Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications? We encourage you to apply anyway. We're interested in people who are excited about this opportunity and eager to grow.

The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $220,000 to $400,000 USD, plus an annual performance bonus of up to 15% of base salary. A successful candidate’s actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including, without limitation, the candidate’s work location, education, work and other relevant experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See [Sentry Benefits](https://sentry.io/careers/) for more details about the Company’s benefit plans/programs.

## 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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