# Engineering Manager, Billing Platform

**Company:** [Sentry](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sentry)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $220k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Distributed Systems, Software Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Lead and grow a team of engineers on Sentry's Billing Platform, owning checkout, invoicing, and spend management features. Requires 5+ years engineering experience (Python/JS/TS preferred), 2+ years management, and strong cross-functional collaboration on distributed systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and drive the team's roadmap, aligning team goals with organizational objectives and contributing to the overall platform strategy.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on complex distributed systems and design.
- Ensure the team proactively identifies areas for improvement.
- Partner closely with business and technical teams to translate business goals into actionable objectives and scalable solutions.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented engineers, including Staff-level engineers.
- Build a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation.
- Communicate team progress, challenges, and strategic direction to senior leadership, stakeholders, and the wider organization.
- Represent the team's work internally and externally, including through blog posts and presentations.
- Own critical workflows such as checkout and invoicing.
- Develop new features to help customers manage their spend growth.
- Partner across the organization to ensure customers redeem everything Sentry has to offer and budget for future expansion.

## Requirements
- Experience working on a customer-facing product, ideally within developer tools or high-traffic product surfaces.
- Experience owning a product area end-to-end, from shipping new features through long-term maintenance and iteration.
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to articulate technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly and succinctly.
- Experience with scoping work, performing resource allocation, and establishing engineering milestones and delivery dates.
- 5+ years professional engineering experience, preferably with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript or similar.
- 2+ years of engineering management experience.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Product and platform-minded leader who enjoys distributed systems and software architecture problems.
- Regard Product and Design as peers.
- High agency and ownership of outcomes, including defining where Billing needs to be in 6-12 months.
- Comfortable managing delivery and shaping direction.
- Leverage technical background to inform and validate team decisions.
- Thrive in cross-functional environments.
- Love to foster career growth for team members.

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