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title: 'Senior Backend Software Engineer at Sentra'
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# Senior Backend Software Engineer at Sentra

- **Company:** Sentra
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA / Bay Area
- **Compensation:** $150k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-03-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentra/70005074-668c-4c71-929c-2a17cfaa081e

## Job description

At Sentra we embarked on an exciting journey to build a one-of-a-kind company memory to help growing startups overcome scaling challenges. At Sentra https://www.sentra.app, we've developed a true AI teammate that understands an organization's context, goals, and culture - offering both ICs and leaders unprecedented transparency into what's happening across the company and strategic alignment.

Sentra is backed by a16z and Together Fund, working with leaders from the top tech companies in the valley. Our goal? To never let a company lose itself as it gets bigger.

## What you’ll do

- Build and ship scalable backend/platform systems
- Develop LLM agents that integrate with large datasets
- Take ownership in a fast-paced, early-stage environment
- Learn quickly and adapt to evolving challenges

## What we’re looking for

- Strong backend and platform engineering experience (3+ years)
- Ability to work independently, learn quickly, and move fast (we are a startup)
- Experience with Python, AWS, SQL databases, API development
- Bonus: experience working with LLMs, agentic frameworks, and RAG

## What we offer

- Competitive salary and equity
- Free meals on in-office days
- UberEats credits
- Health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
- Equinox and other fitness/wellness memberships
- Transportation stipend
- Flexible time off

Competitive pay, equity, and perks/benefits for a seed-stage startup.

## About Sentra

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sentra builds an AI-powered organizational memory layer that captures and structures every interaction, decision, and commitment across a company’s tools, making them queryable by both humans and agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Ashwin Gopinath (CEO), Andrey Starenky (CTO), Al Rey (CRO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Enterprise SaaS, AI Infrastructure, Productivity
- **Target customers**: B2B – teams and enterprises that want a unified knowledge base spanning meetings, messages, documents, tickets, and CRM
- **Mission**: “Enterprise General Intelligence starts with memory” – creating a shared organizational memory that enables intelligent coordination across the entire company

## Products & Services
- **[Sentra](https://www.sentra.app/)**: A cloud or self-hosted platform that ingests data from 200+ tools (meetings, chat, email, code, CRM, etc.) and builds a bi-temporal context graph. Users query the graph in plain English; agents access it via REST or MCP. Key features include factual, action, and interaction memory layers, confidence-scored identity resolution, and automated tracking of commitments and drift. It is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified and can be deployed in an isolated VPC or fully air-gapped on-premises.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $5.0 million (Seed round, January 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by a16z speedrun and Together Fund, with participation from Parable, Shaad Khan, Precursor Ventures, and others. [a16z speedrun](https://speedrun.a16z.com/companies/sentra) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentra-app)
- **Growth Signals**: Team of ~12–16 employees with presence in the US, Canada, and Japan. Founders and early engineers hail from MIT, Caltech, Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, and Databricks. Sentra claims state-of-the-art performance on the MEME benchmark, scoring 40% on Cascade (field average 3%) and 43% on Absence (field average 1%).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Bi-temporal context graph**: Facts carry when they became true and when they stopped, enabling reasoning about change rather than simple retrieval.
- **No model training on customer data**: Data privacy is a core design principle; the platform does not use customer data to train AI models.
- **Self-hosted or air-gapped deployment**: Suitable for enterprises with strict data residency or compliance requirements.
- **Deep integration ecosystem**: Plugs into 200+ tools via native connectors and standard protocols (REST, MCP).

## Strategic Focus
- Become the standard memory layer for enterprises, enabling both human teams and AI agents to act on a single source of organizational truth.
- Continue expanding integrations and improving graph-based reasoning over raw language data.
- Compete with RAG-based memory systems by offering superior accuracy and temporal reasoning.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Deeply technical, research-driven environment led by multiple-time founders with academic and big-tech backgrounds.
- **Team size**: Small (12–16 people) – opportunity for high impact and ownership.
- **Investor backing**: Backed by top-tier firms (a16z speedrun, Together Fund).
- **Work policy**: Headquarters in San Francisco; distributed team across the US, Canada, and Japan (exact remote/hybrid policy not publicly specified).
- **Notable perks**: Focus on cutting-edge AI research; direct work on agentic memory infrastructure that is being cited in academic benchmarks.

## Sources
1. [sentra.app](https://www.sentra.app/)
2. [sentra.app/about](https://www.sentra.app/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/sentra-app](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentra-app)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentra](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentra)
5. [speedrun.a16z.com/companies/sentra](https://speedrun.a16z.com/companies/sentra)

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