Senior Security Engineer, Application & Platform SecurityActive$162K–$420K

The opportunity

The Security Team is responsible for securing all things Sentry: our customers, our code, and everything in between. We are a small but growing team with broad scope, high trust, and the autonomy to tackle hard security problems with creativity and an engineering mindset.

What you'll do

  • Own and mature Sentry's security review program. From secure code review, to: architecture review, and threat modeling. You will build processes, tooling, and culture which makes security a natural part of how we ship and operate.

  • Influence mature vulnerability management practices. Intake, triage,: prioritization, remediation tracking, and management of our bug bounty and responsible disclosure program.

  • Champion secure-by-design principles. Partner with engineering and product: teams to embed security early in the development lifecycle and integrate security tooling into developer and CI/CD workflows.

  • Validate and reproduce application and infrastructure security findings.: Scanning, manual testing, coordinate penetration testing and vulnerability validation across Sentry's application, SDKs and cloud-based platform.

  • Evaluate and respond to emerging threats relevant to application security: Sentry. We build and operate a complex application and cloud environment, including the novel attack surface introduced by Sentry's agentic product features and AI-assisted engineering practices.

  • Enjoy operating cross-functionally, building relationships, and influencing: with technical expertise, and shaping how security gets done across a fast-moving engineering organization.

What they're looking for

  • + years of industry experience designing, building, securing complex: applications and large-scale distributed cloud systems
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience
  • Direct experience with security reviews, SDLC practices, secure CI/CD,: architecture reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability management, bug bounty and responsible disclosure programs
  • Experienced and comfortable programming in at least one language, must be: comfortable reviewing Python, Typescript, Go, Rust applications
  • Familiarity with using distributed cloud technology (AWS, GCP, Azure,: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, etc.) and securing those technologies (cloud networking, IAM, etc.)
  • A collaborative approach to problem solving paired with strong written and verbal communication