Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Top Benefits
About the role
About Sentry
Bad software is everywhere, and we’re tired of it. Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster so we can get back to enjoying technology.
With more than $217 million in funding and 100,000+ organizations that believe we’re on to something, we're building performance and error monitoring tools that help companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian spend less time fixing bugs and more time building products.
Sentry embraces a hybrid work model, with Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays set as in-office anchor days to encourage meaningful collaboration. If you like to selfishly build things that make your digital life better, come help us build the next generation of software monitoring tools.
About The Role
Sentry provides a suite of tools that help developers monitor the health of their applications and respond quickly to issues. These tools are mission-critical for companies operating in fast-paced, competitive environments. The Production Engineering team ensures that the development and deployment of these tools is safe, efficient, and enjoyable by maintaining a reliable CI environment and an informative, low-friction deployment pipeline.
As a Production Engineer (internal title) at Sentry, you’ll help scale and evolve the infrastructure that powers our hosted platform , used by more than a million developers. We ingest billions of events per day and process terabytes of data to deliver fast, actionable insights. You'll work across a variety of technologies and play a direct role in helping Sentry grow to handle 100x our current event volume.
You’ll also help define the future of the team and our infrastructure in a cloud-native world, partnering with other engineers to ensure performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale.
In This Role You Will
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of Sentry’s cloud platform
- Architect and automate scalable systems and services
- Analyze and optimize system performance and cost efficiency
- Guide and support engineering teams in configuring their infrastructure and deployments
- Collaborate with Security to ensure compliance with policies and best practices
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and respond to critical production issues
You’ll Love This Job If You
- Enjoy working cross-functionally to improve scalability, observability, and performance
- Are curious about new cloud technologies and enjoy exploring them
- Aren’t afraid to dive into systems internals to troubleshoot complex issues
- Have experience owning a service end-to-end, even if you started with no prior context
- Have learned from a production incident and know how to prevent it from happening again
Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant experience in systems or infrastructure engineering
- Experience with production monitoring and logging tools
- Proficiency with some or all of the following tools and technologies:
- System Administration: Debian, Docker
- Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Datastores: PostgreSQL, Redis, BigTable
- Infrastructure as Code: SaltStack, Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt
- Networking/Routing: Nginx, Envoy
- Programming or scripting experience (Python preferred)
- Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GoCD, or similar tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts
Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications? We encourage you to apply anyway. We're interested in people are excited about this opportunity and eager to grow.
The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $185,000 to $237,000 CAD. A successful candidate’s actual base salary (or hourly wage) 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.
Want to learn more about how Sentry handles applicant data? Get the details in our Applicant Privacy Policy.
About Sentry
Your business. Your employees. Your peace of mind. At Sentry, we understand what matters most to you. Because we've spent the last 120 years building trust with our customers—one conversation at a time. We got our start in 1904, when members of the Wisconsin Retail Hardware Association formed their own insurance company. Our dedication to personalized service—and to honoring our Midwestern roots—has helped make Sentry part of one of the largest and most financially secure mutual insurance groups in the United States. Our customers work in a wide range of industries, including transportation, manufacturing, metalworking, construction, auto dealerships, and more. Many of them have been with us for decades. From 401(k) plans and general liability, to commercial property and workers’ compensation, we offer solutions that can help protect your business and your employees. We are headquartered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and have offices located across the United States. With more than $25 billion in assets, an $8 billion* policyholder surplus, and an A+ (superior) rating from AM Best,** the industry’s leading rating authority, we can help provide you peace of mind. To learn more about us, the industries we serve, and the products we offer, visit sentry.com. The content provided here is for informational purposes only: https://www.sentry.com/footer/legal-disclaimer. *Assets and policyholder surplus are as of December 31, 2023, and represent the aggregate total for all members of the Sentry Insurance Group and are not reflective of any individual underwriting company. https://www.sentry.com/-/media/sentry-insurance/home/about-us/annual-report-2023/2023-sentry-year-in-review.ashx **Sentry has an AM Best Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A+ (superior), current as of June 2024. For details about AM Best’s rating scale, see ambest.com/ratings/guide.pdf.
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Top Benefits
About the role
About Sentry
Bad software is everywhere, and we’re tired of it. Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster so we can get back to enjoying technology.
With more than $217 million in funding and 100,000+ organizations that believe we’re on to something, we're building performance and error monitoring tools that help companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian spend less time fixing bugs and more time building products.
Sentry embraces a hybrid work model, with Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays set as in-office anchor days to encourage meaningful collaboration. If you like to selfishly build things that make your digital life better, come help us build the next generation of software monitoring tools.
About The Role
Sentry provides a suite of tools that help developers monitor the health of their applications and respond quickly to issues. These tools are mission-critical for companies operating in fast-paced, competitive environments. The Production Engineering team ensures that the development and deployment of these tools is safe, efficient, and enjoyable by maintaining a reliable CI environment and an informative, low-friction deployment pipeline.
As a Production Engineer (internal title) at Sentry, you’ll help scale and evolve the infrastructure that powers our hosted platform , used by more than a million developers. We ingest billions of events per day and process terabytes of data to deliver fast, actionable insights. You'll work across a variety of technologies and play a direct role in helping Sentry grow to handle 100x our current event volume.
You’ll also help define the future of the team and our infrastructure in a cloud-native world, partnering with other engineers to ensure performance, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale.
In This Role You Will
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of Sentry’s cloud platform
- Architect and automate scalable systems and services
- Analyze and optimize system performance and cost efficiency
- Guide and support engineering teams in configuring their infrastructure and deployments
- Collaborate with Security to ensure compliance with policies and best practices
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and respond to critical production issues
You’ll Love This Job If You
- Enjoy working cross-functionally to improve scalability, observability, and performance
- Are curious about new cloud technologies and enjoy exploring them
- Aren’t afraid to dive into systems internals to troubleshoot complex issues
- Have experience owning a service end-to-end, even if you started with no prior context
- Have learned from a production incident and know how to prevent it from happening again
Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant experience in systems or infrastructure engineering
- Experience with production monitoring and logging tools
- Proficiency with some or all of the following tools and technologies:
- System Administration: Debian, Docker
- Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Datastores: PostgreSQL, Redis, BigTable
- Infrastructure as Code: SaltStack, Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt
- Networking/Routing: Nginx, Envoy
- Programming or scripting experience (Python preferred)
- Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GoCD, or similar tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts
Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications? We encourage you to apply anyway. We're interested in people are excited about this opportunity and eager to grow.
The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $185,000 to $237,000 CAD. A successful candidate’s actual base salary (or hourly wage) 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.
Want to learn more about how Sentry handles applicant data? Get the details in our Applicant Privacy Policy.
About Sentry
Your business. Your employees. Your peace of mind. At Sentry, we understand what matters most to you. Because we've spent the last 120 years building trust with our customers—one conversation at a time. We got our start in 1904, when members of the Wisconsin Retail Hardware Association formed their own insurance company. Our dedication to personalized service—and to honoring our Midwestern roots—has helped make Sentry part of one of the largest and most financially secure mutual insurance groups in the United States. Our customers work in a wide range of industries, including transportation, manufacturing, metalworking, construction, auto dealerships, and more. Many of them have been with us for decades. From 401(k) plans and general liability, to commercial property and workers’ compensation, we offer solutions that can help protect your business and your employees. We are headquartered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and have offices located across the United States. With more than $25 billion in assets, an $8 billion* policyholder surplus, and an A+ (superior) rating from AM Best,** the industry’s leading rating authority, we can help provide you peace of mind. To learn more about us, the industries we serve, and the products we offer, visit sentry.com. The content provided here is for informational purposes only: https://www.sentry.com/footer/legal-disclaimer. *Assets and policyholder surplus are as of December 31, 2023, and represent the aggregate total for all members of the Sentry Insurance Group and are not reflective of any individual underwriting company. https://www.sentry.com/-/media/sentry-insurance/home/about-us/annual-report-2023/2023-sentry-year-in-review.ashx **Sentry has an AM Best Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A+ (superior), current as of June 2024. For details about AM Best’s rating scale, see ambest.com/ratings/guide.pdf.