# Senior Software Engineer, Events Analytics Platform

**Company:** [Sentry](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sentry)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $190k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, Postgres, ClickHouse, Memcached, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Distributed Systems, Backend Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> Senior backend/infrastructure engineer expanding Sentry's time-series data platform (Snuba/ClickHouse) to handle petabyte-scale events with sub-second latency. Requires 4+ years experience and distributed storage expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Expand EAP's ability to deliver data at world-class speed and reliability
- Architect and automate services and systems to scale reliably under growing demand
- Make architectural trade-offs that balance product requirements with engineering constraints
- Maintain and grow the team's code quality initiatives by regularly reviewing code and contributing to design decisions
- Lead design and discussions around deliverables the team is working towards
- Improve the maintainability and developer experience of the codebases EAP owns

## Requirements
- Minimum of 4+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
- Strong knowledge of replicated and/or distributed data storage systems
- Proficiency in Python or a comparable language
- Experience with some or all of the following systems:
  - Disk-driven Storage Systems: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse
  - Memory-driven Storage Systems: Memcached, Redis
  - Streaming Platforms: Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly
- Located in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Snuba, Sentry's search infrastructure
- Experience querying unstructured data in ClickHouse
- Experience achieving stronger consistency out of a datastore

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