Director of Engineering, Platform (Runtime & Stateful Systems)New$300K–$450K

The opportunity

We're looking for an experienced engineering leader to own one of the most critical areas within Platform: the runtime and stateful systems Sentry runs on. You'll lead multiple engineering teams and Staff engineers responsible for OLTP and OLAP databases, real-time compute and…

What you'll do

  • Lead multiple engineering teams and Staff engineers responsible for the: runtime and stateful systems supporting Sentry, Seer, and the products built on top of them.

  • Set the technical vision and strategy across multiple systems, identifying: opportunities to evolve our architecture as the business scales.

  • Drive significant architectural changes and technical initiatives, making: informed tradeoffs around scalability, reliability, performance, cost, and complexity.

  • Provide technical leadership across teams, working closely with senior: engineers to evaluate architectural decisions, challenge assumptions, and establish technical direction.

  • Own the execution and operational excellence of mission-critical systems,: ensuring teams deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performing platform components.

  • Build and develop a strong engineering organization, including hiring,: mentoring, and growing engineering managers and senior technical leaders.

What they're looking for

  • + years of experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering,: with significant experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Director-level engineering management experience, or equivalent senior: engineering leadership experience overseeing multiple teams at comparable scale and complexity.
  • Deep technical expertise in at least one of the following domains: OLTP databases
  • OLAP databases
  • Real-time compute and stream processing
  • Blob/object storage
  • Distributed caching
  • Demonstrated experience driving significant architectural changes, including: evaluating technical tradeoffs, establishing direction, and leading implementation.