Engineering Manager, Data Platform

What you'll do

• 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

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

You'll love this job if you

• Enjoy mentoring and developing engineers, especially helping junior engineers grow into senior roles
• Get excited by designing and running large-scale distributed data systems where performance and reliability matter
• Are passionate about tackling the challenges of continuously scaling as Sentry's traffic grows
• Like tackling complex querying and storage challenges at massive scale
• Thrive on cross-functional collaboration with product and infrastructure teams
• Want to work on a highly strategic team with significant visibility that shapes the future of Sentry's platform