Engineering Manager, Data Platform

The role

You will lead the Events Analytics Platform team to build and operate distributed data systems. You will manage petabytes of data and develop high-performance analytical infrastructure.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of engineers working on large-scale distributed data systems.
• Drive technical execution and architectural decisions across storage and query infrastructure.
• Build and evolve analytical data systems supporting complex queries and high-throughput workloads.
• Guide the evolution of EAP's architecture including query optimization and storage and compute separation.
• Own the operational health of the platform and lead efforts to improve reliability.
• Partner with product engineering teams to deliver platform capabilities.
• Support Sentry's AI-powered capabilities by ensuring the platform serves required analytical workloads.
• Set clear priorities and drive projects from design through production.

Required 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• 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.

Benefits

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

About the company

Sentry is an application monitoring standard that helps developers fix errors and performance issues. The company is an open-source company trusted by over 200,000 organizations.