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Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Data Engineer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 San Francisco

As Engineering Manager on the Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team, you'll lead a group of engineers building and scaling one of Sentry's most critical data platforms — powering how all event data (errors, transactions, spans, profiles, replays, metrics) is stored, queried, and analyzed.

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Responsibilities

  • Grow and develop a team of engineers with high expectations for ownership and impact
  • Set the technical and strategic direction, balancing short-term stability with long-term architectural evolution
  • Drive development of core EAP features: complex analytical queries, dynamic routing across fidelity levels, storage/compute separation
  • Ensure EAP can support the workload demands of AI agents and MCP servers
  • Guide the unification of all event data into EAP for fast, complex cross-event querying at scale
  • Partner closely with Product Engineering, Streaming, Production Engineering, Security, and Compliance
  • Lead the team through incidents, postmortems, and scaling challenges

Requirements

  • 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering, including 4+ years of people management experience
  • Strong technical background in data platforms, storage systems, or analytical backends (e.g. ClickHouse, Pinot, Druid)
  • Experience with distributed systems, query optimization, or scaling data-intensive workloads
  • Excellent communication skills, able to clearly articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences

Nice to have

  • Proficiency with Python, Rust, or a similar language
  • Familiarity with observability, developer tools, or event-driven systems

Soft skills

Enjoys mentoring and developing engineersThrives on cross-functional collaboration with product and infrastructure teams

What we offer

  • Eligible to participate in Sentry's employee benefit plans (incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, group health insurance)

About the company

Sentry provides developer-first observability to over 4 million developers worldwide; the EAP team is at the heart of that mission and a cornerstone of Sentry's AI push (Seer).

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