# Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Sentry](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sentry)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $220k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, infrastructure automation, Platform Engineering, Distributed Systems, internal tooling
**Posted:** 2026-07-31

> Lead a team building internal control platforms, configuration management, traffic routing, and automation tools that enable other engineers at Sentry to operate services safely at scale. Requires 10+ years software engineering experience (with infrastructure/platform focus) and 4+ years of engineering management experience.

## Job Description

## 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.

## Requirements
- 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.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Passionate about building tools that make operating complex systems simple for other engineers.
- Enjoy solving infrastructure problems around configuration, routing, and automation, and turning them into clean, self-service abstractions.
- Believe in using proven technologies and committing to a single, reliable choice rather than chasing novelty.
- Think in terms of building for scale and cost effectiveness from day one, and for the needs of many teams rather than one.
- Value cross-functional collaboration and thrive in hybrid, in-person settings with engineers across functions, levels, and geographies.
- Take pride in building strong, healthy teams and enabling them to lead high-impact, multi-year initiatives.
- Want to be part of a thoughtful, highly technical team that cares about long-term system health and operational simplicity.

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