Staff Software Engineer, Issue Workflow

Sentry
Toronto
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 253,000 - 316,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Mentoring","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Staff Software Engineer on the Issue Workflow team at Sentry, focusing on architecting high-scale distributed systems, real-time data pipelines, search backends, and analytics to power the core issue surface used by millions of developers. You’ll shape technical strategy, tackle performance and scalability, ensure product quality, and mentor teammates in a hybrid, collaboration-heavy environment.

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Staff Software Engineer, Issue Workflow

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Job Summary

Staff Software Engineer on the Issue Workflow team at Sentry, focusing on architecting high-scale distributed systems, real-time data pipelines, search backends, and analytics to power the core issue surface used by millions of developers. You’ll shape technical strategy, tackle performance and scalability, ensure product quality, and mentor teammates in a hybrid, collaboration-heavy environment.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive technical strategy and roadmap. Partner with engineering leadership, product, and design to shape the multi-quarter technical vision for Issue Workflow platform vision. Make strategic calls about architectural direction, technology choices, and technical debt.
  • •Solve complex performance and scalability challenges.
  • •Champion product quality and user experience. Build features that are fast, reliable, and well-instrumented for measuring and improving.
  • •Mentor and elevate others. Help engineers grow their skills and celebrate wins while learning from failures.
  • •Architect systems to support billions of events and ensure the most trafficked part of Sentry's platform remains performant

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 253,000 - 316,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years in full-stack software engineering, ideally Python and Typescript
  • •Expertise in domain modeling, distributed systems, data stores, message queues
  • •Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • •Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Kafka is preferred
  • •Strong full-stack instincts and product-mindedness
Experience:10+ yearsSaaSDeveloper tools
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipMentoringCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonTypescriptPostgreSQLClickHouseKafka

Company Brief

Sentry
Provides an error monitoring and performance observability platform for developers, helping teams identify, triage, and resolve application issues across frontend and backend systems with real-time alerts and diagnostic context.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
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