Senior Software Engineer, Foundational Storage

Sentry

. Design and operate storage systems used across Sentry, including configuration and performance tuning .

Posted 10/13/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesSenior💰 $190,000 - $400,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating distributed storage systems, with a strong focus on performance tuning, API development, and fault tolerance. Proficient in Rust and Python, with a solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and experience in cloud environments.

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Distributed Systems EngineeringRust ProgrammingPython ProgrammingKubernetes DeploymentObservability and Incident Response

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Hard Skills

Distributed SystemsStorage Systems DesignAPI DevelopmentPerformance TuningObject StorageRelational DatabasesCaching SystemsData MigrationConcurrencyConsistency

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationProblem-SolvingDocumentation

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesTerraformOpen-Source Contributions

Industry Keywords

SLOsFault ToleranceCloud EnvironmentScalabilityLatency Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsJavaKubernetesPythonRustTerraformC++Go

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and operate storage systems used across Sentry, including configuration and performance tuning
Create APIs and abstractions for product teams with correctness, security, and scalability best practices
Solve large-scale storage challenges involving consistency, concurrent access, sharding, rebalancing, and routing reads and writes across backends
Work with product engineers to choose storage approaches, plan safe migrations, and support adoption of storage tools
Collaborate with Platform and Infrastructure teams, including analytical storage and streaming, to build a fault-tolerant platform
Align roadmaps and standards and design for failures and recovery
Improve storage performance and cost efficiency
Write primarily Rust and Python with clear user-facing documentation
Develop advanced testing scenarios, including production-scale chaos tests
Own latency and availability SLOs, improve monitoring and incident response, and participate in on-call rotation
Contribute to open-source projects

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed, stateful systems in production
Hands-on experience with object storage, relational databases, and caching systems at production scale
Experience with key-value or wide-column stores is a plus
Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, concurrency, failures, and retries
Proficiency in a systems language such as Go, C++, Java, or Rust
Comfort working in Python
Experience running services on Kubernetes in a cloud environment
Experience with observability, SLOs, and incident response
Familiarity with Terraform is a plus
Good written and spoken English
Experience building shared libraries or internal APIs, migrating data between systems, or improving system performance and cost is nice to have

Benefits

Comp & perks

Incentive compensation
Equity grants
Paid time off
Group health insurance coverage
Up to 10% bonus
Inclusive culture and reasonable accommodations for disabilities