Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build and enhance control plane systems that manage customer identity, placement, and lifecycle across a multi-cell architecture
• ▹Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of mission-critical control plane services
• ▹Provide safe infrastructure primitives and standards for cell-compatible systems to partner engineering teams
• ▹Help operate critical infrastructure through incident response and continuous improvement

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar role
• ▹Strong proficiency with Python
• ▹Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
• ▹Strong understanding of replication, consistency models, and service coordination
• ▹Experience building infrastructure services or platform APIs used by multiple teams
• ▹Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• ▹Experience operating containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes)
• ▹Track record of operating production systems with strong ownership

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with Rust

Soft skills

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 helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, trusted by 200,000+ organizations as today's application monitoring standard. Sentry is an open-source company committed to making software development accessible to everyone.