# Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling

**Company:** [Sentry](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sentry)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $240k – $320k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Ai Coding Agents, Ai Harness Tooling, CI/CD, Dev Infrastructure, Context Engineering, System Design, Distributed Systems, Code Review Tooling, Static Analysis, Automated Pr Pipelines
**Posted:** 2026-07-10

> Build and own AI-assisted coding domain within Platform Engineering. Audit and expose internal systems via APIs for AI agents, create harness tooling and feedback loops for high-quality AI-generated PRs, automate routine engineering work, and design internal productivity tools. Requires 10+ years software engineering experience and hands-on work with AI coding tools.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Audit Sentry’s internal developer systems and make them API-ready for AI agents. Prioritize and drive exposing those systems programmatically, and build the connections that allow agents to operate on them end-to-end.
- Build the harness tooling, context systems, and feedback loops that help agents generate high-quality, repository-aware pull requests, including automated pre-review checks and PR quality measurement tailored to Sentry’s codebase.
- Automate high-volume, low-priority engineering work: security dependency upgrades, minor bug fixes, and routine maintenance, so engineers can focus on higher-value work.
- Design and build internal tools that make engineering more effective: productivity dashboards, AI-assisted issue triage, CI/CD optimizations, and tooling that reduces toil.
- Identify and remove organizational friction. Use data and direct observation to find where engineering is slowing down, recommend solutions to senior leadership, and build cross-team buy-in for changes.

## Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience building tools or workflows that improve how developers or AI agents work. This could be CI/CD or dev infra experience, or it could be AI harness tooling, AI-first coding workflows, or public contributions in this space.
- Strong software and system design fundamentals.
- Genuine curiosity and hands-on experience with AI coding tools and agents. Prior machine learning experience isn’t required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting to senior technical leadership.
- A track record of driving cross-team technical initiatives to completion.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems or monolith decomposition.
- Prior work on developer experience or engineering productivity programs.
- Familiarity with code review tooling, static analysis, or automated PR pipelines.

## Compensation
Base salary range: $240,000 - $300,000. Eligible for incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage.

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