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[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

Worldwide Salaried Open

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sentry is a leading application monitoring standard that helps developers fix errors and performance issues efficiently. The Senior Software Engineer on the CTRL team will design and operate core platform primitives for distributed coordination, routing, and lifecycle orchestration, ensuring the platform operates safely and correctly at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build and enhance the control plane systems that manage customer identity, placement, and lifecycle across a multi-cell architecture
  • Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of mission-critical control plane services
  • Partner with engineering teams to provide safe infrastructure primitives and standards for cell-compatible systems
  • Help operate critical infrastructure through incident response and continuous improvement

Skills

  • 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar role
  • Strong proficiency with Python; experience with Rust is a plus
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
  • Strong understanding of replication, consistency models, and service coordination
  • Experience building infrastructure services or platform APIs used by multiple teams
  • Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience operating containerized systems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Track record of operating production systems with strong ownership
  • Strong written communication skills and ability to document platform systems clearly

Benefits

  • Incentive compensation
  • Equity grants
  • Paid time off
  • Group health insurance coverage

Company Overview

  • Sentry is a developer of an application monitoring platform that helps developers optimize the performance of their code. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.sentry.io.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Sentry has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 4 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 12 in 2022, 6 in 2021, 4 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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