Engineering Manager, Events Analytics Platform

📋 Job Overview

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. It also powers Sentry's latest AI push, Seer.

🏢 About Sentry

Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

🎯 The Role

As an engineering manager on the EAP team, you will lead a group of engineers building and scaling one of Sentry's most critical data platforms. You will be responsible for driving architectural evolution, ensuring system stability, and mentoring a talented team. This is a highly visible leadership role with direct ties to Sentry's long-term product and platform strategy.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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
• Lead the team through incidents, postmortems, and scaling challenges while fostering operational excellence
• Build a healthy and collaborative team culture rooted in growth, accountability, and inclusion

📌 Required Qualifications

• 10+ 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

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Proficiency with Python, Rust, or a similar programming language is a plus
• Familiarity with observability, developer tools, or event-driven systems is a plus

🎁 Benefits

Base salary range: $220,000 to $450,000. Offers equity and up to 25% bonus. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage).

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry.