Staff Software Engineer, Issue Workflow
Sentry · San Francisco, CA · Engineering
About this role
Sentry is hiring a staff-level Software Engineer based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Distributed Systems. Compensation is listed at $240,000–$300,000 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Mar 31, 2026
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Job description
from Sentry careersAbout 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 100,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.
About the role
Issue Workflow is Sentry's primary product surface. Our issue platform processes billions events daily and turns them into actionable insights that help millions of developers fix bugs faster.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Issue Workflow team, you'll architect the systems that power this experience. You'll work at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and product engineering, building real-time data pipelines, search backends, and analysis systems that surface signal from noise. This is product engineering at massive scale—where every architectural decision impacts millions of debugging sessions.
You'll be the technical leader who shapes how Sentry groups issues, how we make search lightning-fast, how we enable sophisticated agentic workflows, and how we ensure that the product is performant even at billions-of-events scale. Your work will define what's possible for the most trafficked part of Sentry's platform.