Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

Sentry's Infrastructure Engineering team is what makes operating Sentry simple, safe, and seamless for every other engineering team in the company. They build the internal control platforms, configuration systems, traffic routing, and automation that let product engineers operate services safely at scale without needing deep infrastructure expertise themselves.

🏢 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 the Engineering Manager for Infrastructure Engineering, you'll lead a team of engineers building the tools that power Sentry's growth: internal admin and change management tools, configuration automation, and the routing layer that underlies Sentry's architecture. You'll be responsible for technical vision, team health, system reliability, and partnership with engineering teams across the company who depend on your team's tools every day.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers building the internal control platforms that every engineering team at Sentry relies on to operate services safely.
• Drive the evolution of Infrastructure Engineering's platform, including configuration management, traffic routing and environment controls
• Own the team's technical direction, contributing to key decisions on API architecture, internal tooling design, and automation frameworks.
• Nurture and grow engineers at different levels, providing support through coaching, mentorship, and career development.
• Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on ownership, learning, and delivery.
• Partner with Production Engineering, SRE, and Developer Infrastructure to make sure operational tooling stays consistent and well-scoped across the org.
• Own the reliability, adoption, and roadmap of the team's tools while building a culture of technical excellence and pragmatic decision making.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with a focus on internal tooling, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, or distributed systems.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including growing and managing teams of engineers.
• Experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager leading the architecture and long-term evolution of internal control platforms or similar systems.
• Strong backend or full-stack engineering background, with solid Python skills.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, terraform, python, and a systems mindset for abstracting complex infrastructure for others to use.
• Strong technical communication skills and a track record of effective cross-team and leadership collaboration.
• Proven experience delivering and owning multi-year engineering initiatives in a leadership or technical leadership capacity.
• Comfortable working across org boundaries and aligning priorities across infra, platform, and product teams.

🎁 Benefits

Base salary range: $220,000 to $450,000. Offers Equity. Plus 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