Sentry
Senior Software Engineer, Billing Platform
San Francisco, California · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$190k-$280kDetected 19 days ago
Distributed SystemsLeadership
About the role
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and scale the core systems that power Sentry's billing infrastructure, ensuring accuracy and reliability at massive scale.
- You will contribute to technical decisions on data consistency challenges unique to billing-like handling event delays, retroactive pricing changes, and distributed count reconciliation across our infrastructure.
- The Billing team sits at the intersection of product, finance, and infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- You will collaborate on building the next generation of Sentry's usage tracking pipeline, processing hundreds of billions of events daily with low latency and financial-grade accuracy.
- Want to solve the "easy to explain, hard to build" problems-like ensuring a customer's bill matches their usage perfectly, even when processing hundreds of billions of events daily across distributed systems.
- The team works cross-functionally with product, engineering, BizOps, marketing, and sales to build systems that enable new products and pricing models.
Compensation
- The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $190,000 to $280,000.
Company info
- They're responsible for ensuring every observable event-errors, logs, traces, tokens-gets accurately measured, priced, and billed.
- Their work directly impacts company revenue and customer trust, requiring distributed systems expertise, attention to financial accuracy, and deep understanding of product usage patterns.
- See Sentry Benefits https://sentry.io/careers/ for more details about the Company's benefit plans/programs.
Equal opportunity
- Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.
- If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@sentry.io.
- Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic.
- This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry.
Visa & Work Authorization
- candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected
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