300K–450K USD / year
Director of Engineering, Platform (Runtime & Stateful Systems)
Engineering managerHybrid — San Francisco, California
Published on 2026-10-24
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About this role
Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for the runtime and stateful systems powering Sentry’s products. Set technical direction, drive major architectural changes, and develop engineering leaders while ensuring mission-critical platform systems remain reliable, scalable, and efficient.
About the company
Sentry provides monitoring and error tracking tools designed to help software teams identify and fix issues in real-time. The company serves developers and organizations seeking to enhance their application's reliability and performance through data-driven insights.
The team
Platform organization, focused on runtime and stateful systems.
What you'll do
- Lead multiple teams and Staff engineers responsible for platform runtime and stateful systems.
- Set technical vision and strategy across databases, compute, storage, and caching systems.
- Drive architectural changes and balance scalability, reliability, performance, cost, and complexity.
- Own execution and operational excellence for mission-critical systems.
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
- Partner with Platform, Infrastructure, and Product on cross-functional initiatives.
What we're looking for
- 12+ years of backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems.
- Director-level engineering management experience or comparable leadership across multiple teams.
- Deep technical expertise in at least one of OLTP or OLAP databases, real-time compute or stream processing, object storage, or distributed caching.
- Experience leading significant architectural changes and complex initiatives from strategy through execution.
- Experience hiring and developing engineering managers and senior technical talent.
- Strong communication, organizational leadership, and technical judgment.
- Experience operating mission-critical infrastructure.
Benefits
- Equity grants
- Annual performance bonus of up to 20% of base salary
- Paid time off
- Group health insurance