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Senior Software Engineer, Events Analytics Platform

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About Sentry

Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building.

Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

About the role

The Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team is responsible for the infrastructure that powers all of Sentry's time-series data and searching capabilities across billions of events with sub-second latency. We started this initiative by building Snuba, the primary storage and query service for Sentry's event data powered by ClickHouse, and we are now focused on unlocking deeper visibility and reporting across the terabytes of event data our users generate.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead efforts to push the boundaries of data visibility at Sentry. You will do this by expanding the capabilities of our search infrastructure, building new capabilities on top of our state-of-the-art storage layer and increasing the performance and integrity of Sentry’s core data services. You will also help shape Infrastructure's technical direction at Sentry and collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams to turn that vision into a reality.

If you want to solve the hard problems that come with scaling event data into the petabyte range, this could be the job for you.

In this role you will:

  • Expand EAP's ability to deliver data at world-class speed and reliability.

  • Architect and automate services and systems to scale reliably under growing demand.

  • Make architectural trade-offs that balance product requirements with engineering constraints.

  • Maintain and grow the team's code quality initiatives by regularly reviewing code and contributing to design decisions.

  • Lead design and discussions around deliverables the team is working towards.

  • Improve the maintainability and developer experience of the codebases EAP owns.

Examples of projects our team has worked on:

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 4+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering.

  • Strong knowledge of replicated and/or distributed data storage systems.

  • Proficiency in Python or a comparable language.

  • You have experience with some or all of the following systems we leverage:

    • Disk-driven Storage Systems: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse

    • Memory-driven Storage Systems: Memcached, Redis

    • Streaming Platforms: Kafka, RabbitMQ

  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly.

  • In the Toronto area or willing to relocate.

The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $200,000 to $295,000 CAD. A successful candidate’s actual base salary amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including, without limitation, the candidate’s work location, education, work and other relevant experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Company’s benefit plans/programs.

 

Equal Opportunity at Sentry

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@sentry.io.

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Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Full Time
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Department
Engineering
Compensation

CA$200K – CA$295K

Plus generous equity

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Rund vier Millionen Entwicklerinnen und Entwickler nutzen Sentry, um Fehler in ihrer Software zu finden, bevor die eigenen Nutzer sie melden. Stürzt eine App ab oder lädt eine Seite zu langsam, landet der Vorfall samt betroffener Codezeile beim zuständigen Team. Angefangen hat das 2012 als Open-Source-Projekt zweier Entwickler in San Francisco. Heute arbeiten über 200 Menschen daran, und Wien ist der europäische Standort des Unternehmens.

Sentry sammelt Abstürze, Fehlermeldungen und Performance-Daten aus laufender Software und bereitet sie so auf, dass ein Entwicklungsteam sofort sieht, was schiefgelaufen ist: welche Zeile Code, welche Version, wie viele Nutzer betroffen sind. Unterstützt werden über 100 Programmiersprachen und Frameworks. Nach eigenen Angaben verarbeitet die Plattform täglich mehr als 190 Milliarden solcher Ereignisse, für über 130.000 Organisationen in 146 Ländern. Zu den Kunden zählen Cloudflare und Reddit ebenso wie Duolingo, Atlassian und Anthropic. Wer hier arbeitet, baut also an Werkzeugen mit, die in sehr vielen anderen Firmen täglich im Einsatz sind.

Die Open-Source-Wurzeln sind geblieben. Der Quellcode ist öffentlich einsehbar, und 2025 hat Sentry 750.000 US-Dollar an die Maintainer jener freien Projekte ausgeschüttet, auf denen die eigene Plattform aufbaut. Das sind rund 5.700 Dollar pro Entwicklerin und Entwickler im Haus. Das Modell hat das Unternehmen als Open Source Pledge auch anderen Firmen vorgeschlagen, ein ungewöhnlich konkreter Beitrag an eine Community, aus der viele Bewerber selbst kommen.

In Wien-Leopoldstadt, nahe dem Prater, ist seit August 2020 die Functional Software GmbH eingetragen, eine Tochter der US-Muttergesellschaft Functional Software, Inc. Von hier aus entsteht ein Gutteil der SDKs, also jener Bausteine, die Kunden direkt in ihre eigenen Programme einbauen. Zuletzt suchte der Standort etwa eine Senior-Entwicklerin für das iOS-SDK, eine Person für die Datenaufnahme und jemanden für das Security-Team rund um Identity- und Zugriffsmanagement. Sentry selbst beschreibt Wien als europäischen Hub und verweist auf hohe Mitarbeiterbindung sowie die Nähe zur Open-Source-Szene der Stadt.

Engineering ist weltweit die mit Abstand größte Berufsgruppe, daneben gibt es Teams in Customer Success, Support, Sicherheit und Marketing. Zum Gehalt kommen Unternehmensanteile. Die Karriereseite nennt außerdem ein eigenes Budget für berufliche Weiterbildung, bezahlte Elternzeit und eine flexible Urlaubsregelung. Wie viele der über 200 Beschäftigten auf Wien entfallen, weist das Unternehmen nicht offiziell aus. Neben San Francisco, Wien und Toronto schreibt Sentry inzwischen auch Stellen in Amsterdam, Sydney und New York aus, aktuell rund 47 offene Positionen, der Großteil davon in der Entwicklung.

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