Senior Software Engineer, Foundational Storage

The role

You will design and operate stateful storage systems including object storage, relational databases, key-value stores, and caches. You will build APIs and abstractions to help product teams store and access data efficiently.

What you will do

• Design and operate storage systems used across Sentry.
• Create APIs and abstractions for product teams.
• Solve storage challenges at scale including sharding, rebalancing, and routing.
• Work with product engineers to choose storage approaches and plan migrations.
• Plan and build with other Platform and Infrastructure teams.
• Improve storage performance and cost efficiency.
• Write code primarily in Rust and Python.
• Develop advanced testing scenarios like production-scale chaos tests.
• Own latency and availability SLOs for services.
• Perform database tuning or query optimization within Postgres.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed, stateful systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with object storage, relational databases, or caching systems at production scale.
• An understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, concurrency, and request failures.
• Proficiency in a systems language such as Go, C++, Java, or Rust.
• Comfort working in Python.
• Experience running services on Kubernetes in a cloud environment, including observability, SLOs, and incident response.
• Good written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Experience with key-value or wide-column stores
• Familiarity with Terraform
• Experience building shared libraries or internal APIs
• Migrating data between systems
• Improving system performance and cost

Benefits

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

About the company

Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice. It is an application monitoring standard trusted by 200,000+ organizations.