The opportunity
Sentry provides developer-first observability to over 4 million developers worldwide. The Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team is at the heart of that mission: it powers how all of Sentry's event data, such as errors, transactions, spans, profiles, replays, and metrics, is stored, queried, and analyzed.
What you'll do
Grow and develop a team of engineers with high expectations for ownership and impact
Set the technical and strategic direction for the team, balancing short-term: stability with long-term architectural evolution
Drive development of core EAP features, including support for complex: analytical queries, dynamic routing logic across fidelity levels, storage and compute separation, and modern patterns for analytical storage
Ensure EAP can support the workload demands of AI agents and MCP servers that: unlock new AI capabilities for Sentry
Guide the unification of all event data into EAP and enable fast, complex cross-event querying at scale
Partner closely with cross-functional teams including Product Engineering,: Streaming, Production Engineering, Security, and Compliance
What they're looking for
- + years of industry experience in software engineering, including 4+ years of: people management experience with career development and performance management
- Strong technical background in data platforms, storage systems, or analytical: backends (for example, ClickHouse, Pinot, or Druid)
- Experience with distributed systems, query optimization, or scaling data-intensive workloads
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Proficiency with Python, Rust, or a similar programming language is a plus
- Familiarity with observability, developer tools, or event-driven systems is a plus
