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Sentry · 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Platform

positionSan Francisco, California
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$180K/yr - $280K/yr
date5+ years exp

Sentry is a company focused on helping developers create better software faster through performance and error monitoring tools. The Senior Software Engineer for the Streaming Platform will design and operate components of the streaming infrastructure, ensuring high reliability and low latency for real-time data processing systems.

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Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate components of our Streaming Platform, including Kafka, the streaming runtime, high-level APIs, and developer-facing abstractions
Implement resilient, high-throughput stream processing systems that handle unbounded datasets with strong correctness guarantees (delivery, checkpointing, watermarking, and more)
Build scalable automation and control plane for Kafka fleet management and improve efficiency
Partner with product engineers to ensure our abstractions enable fast, reliable, and consistent ingestion pipelines
Improve observability, monitoring, and failover for mission-critical real-time systems

Qualification

Distributed systemsReal-time streamingKafkaPythonCloud environmentsData infrastructureRustGoJavaFlinkSpark StreamingKubernetesAWSGCPClickHouseArrowStreaming SQL engines

Required

5+ years of software engineering experience, with background in distributed systems, data infrastructure, or real-time streaming
Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Rust, Go, or Java (we primarily use Python and Rust, but experience in similar languages is valuable)
Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or similar tools
Strong understanding of partitioning, watermarks, windowing, stateful/stateless processing, and delivery guarantees
Experience building and operating systems in cloud environments such as Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP

Preferred

experience with ClickHouse, Arrow or other columnar data processing, or modern streaming SQL engines such as Materialize or RisingWave

Benefits

Incentive compensation
Equity grants
Paid time off
Group health insurance coverage

Company

Sentry

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Sentry is a developer of an application monitoring platform that helps developers optimize the performance of their code.
dateFounded in 2012
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.sentry.io

H1B Sponsorship

Sentry has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (4)
2024 (4)
2023 (3)
2022 (12)
2021 (6)
2020 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$217M
Key Investors
AccelNew Enterprise Associates
2022-05-04Series E· $90M
2021-02-18Series D· $60M
2019-09-24Series C· $40M

Leadership Team

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Milin Desai
Chief Executive Officer
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Chris Jennings
Co-founder, Chief Creative Officer
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