The opportunity
The Streaming Platform team at Sentry is building the next generation of infrastructure that powers our ingestion pipelines and real-time data processing systems. Our platform ingests, processes, and distributes hundreds of thousands of events per second with low latency and high reliability.
What you'll do
Design, build, and operate components of our Streaming Platform, including: Kafka, the streaming runtime, high-level APIs, and developer-facing abstractions.
Implement resilient, high-throughput stream processing systems that handle: unbounded datasets with strong correctness guarantees (delivery, checkpointing, watermarking, and more).
Build scalable automation and control plane for Kafka fleet management and improve efficiency.
Partner with product engineers to ensure our abstractions enable fast,: reliable, and consistent ingestion pipelines.
Improve observability, monitoring, and failover for mission-critical real-time systems.
You enjoy working on distributed systems at scale and care about reliability and performance.
What they're looking for
- + years of software engineering experience, with background in distributed: systems, data infrastructure, or real-time streaming.
- Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Rust, Go, or Java (we: primarily use Python and Rust, but experience in similar languages is valuable).
- Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of partitioning, watermarks, windowing,: stateful/stateless processing, and delivery guarantees.
- Experience building and operating systems in cloud environments such as Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP.
- Nice to have: experience with ClickHouse, Arrow or other columnar data processing, or modern streaming SQL engines such as Materialize or RisingWave.
