Senior Software Engineer, Events Analytics Platform
$148,000–$218,300 year
Remote · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Senior Software Engineer for the Events Analytics Platform (EAP) at Sentry. You will lead and expand the team’s data visibility capabilities, architect and automate scalable services, and shape the infrastructure that powers Sentry’s time-series data and search across billions of events. Key focus areas include building on top of our storage layer (e.g., ClickHouse, Snuba) to improve speed, reliability, and developer experience, while driving architectural trade-offs and contributing to design decisions. Ideal candidates will have deep backend/infrastructure experience, experience with distributed storage and streaming systems, and strong collaboration skills to work with Product and other Engineering teams. The role is based in Toronto or fully remote in Canada, with a base CAD salary range of CA$200k–CA$295k. The role emphasizes solving hard problems at scale and improving the maintainability of the team’s codebases.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 4+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
- Strong knowledge of replicated and/or distributed data storage systems
- Proficiency in Python or a comparable language
- Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse
- Experience with Memcached, Redis
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Strong communication skills
- In the Toronto area or willing to relocate
Desired Qualifications
- 4+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience
- Strong knowledge of replicated and/or distributed data storage systems
- Proficiency in Python or a comparable language
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with ClickHouse
- Experience with Memcached
- Experience with Redis
- Experience with Kafka
- Experience with RabbitMQ
- Strong communication skills
- Located in the Toronto area or willing to relocate
- Able to work in a Senior Software Engineer role leading design discussions and improving code quality
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