Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform

The role

This person will set technical direction for the Platform organization and lead engineering work across infrastructure, streaming, and storage. They will partner with leaders to make architectural decisions and stay hands-on through system design, prototyping, and code.

What you will do

• Set technical direction for platform initiatives spanning multiple teams
• Identify and lead changes addressing system bottlenecks, reliability risks, and architectural constraints
• Own cross-team initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, and evaluation
• Make tradeoffs across reliability, performance, cost, operational complexity, and delivery speed
• Stay hands-on writing code and building prototypes
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to prioritize platform investments
• Guide major architectural decisions and help teams resolve disagreements
• Mentor senior and staff engineers

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience
• Substantial hands-on experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Deep experience designing and operating production systems in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP
• Strong hands-on software engineering skills, including writing production code and building prototypes
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following: Cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code (Kubernetes, Terraform); Event streaming and real-time processing systems (Kaf
• Ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs and build alignment across teams and senior leadership
• Experience mentoring senior and staff engineers

Benefits

• Incentive compensation
• Equity grants
• Paid time off
• Group health insurance coverage

About the company

Sentry is an application monitoring standard trusted by 200,000+ organizations. The company is an open-source company building an AI-native future.