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Sentry's Event Streaming Platform is one of the company's most critical technical pillars. Every Sentry product relies on fast, reliable stream processing to power real-time insights, automation, and alerting. This team is building the platform that ingests, processes, and routes billions of events per day, enabling developers across Sentry to build on top of streaming data with confidence and speed. As the Engineering Manager for the Event Streaming team, you'll lead a group of talented engineers across multiple regions and time zones, with a range of seniority levels. You'll be responsible for technical vision, team health, system reliability, and cross-functional partnership. This is a high-ownership role with influence across platform architecture, developer experience, and the broader engineering org.
Job Responsibility:
Lead a globally distributed team working on one of the most foundational systems at Sentry
Nurture and grow engineers at different levels, providing support through coaching, mentorship, and career development
Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on ownership, learning, and delivery
Drive the evolution of Sentry's event streaming platform, contributing to system architecture and owning key technical decisions
Collaborate with product engineering teams to build scalable APIs and developer-friendly primitives that abstract away the complexity of streaming infrastructure
Own the reliability, performance, and delivery of the team's roadmap while fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration
Requirements:
10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with a focus on backend, distributed systems, or infrastructure
4+ years of engineering management experience, including growing and managing teams of 10 or more engineers
Experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager leading the architecture, development, and long-term evolution of large-scale, real-time event processing systems
Familiarity with streaming systems like Kafka, Flink, Beam, Spark Streaming, or similar technologies
Strong technical communication skills and a track record of effective cross-team and leadership collaboration
Proven experience delivering and owning multi-year engineering efforts in a leadership or tech lead capacity
Comfortable working across org boundaries and aligning product, infra, and platform priorities