Sentry
Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling
San Francisco, California · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$240k-$300kDetected 11 days ago
Distributed SystemsCode ReviewCI/CDPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningAgentic AILeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking
About the role
- You won't be embedded in a single product team or siloed in one product area.
- For AI coding agents to work well in our repo, the internal systems they depend on need to be accessible via API, not locked behind UIs that require human interaction.
- Right now, many of those systems aren't agent-ready.
Responsibilities
- Audit Sentry's internal developer systems and make them API-ready for AI agents. You'll prioritize and drive the work of exposing those systems programmatically, and build the connections that allow agents to operate on them end-to-end.
- Build the harness tooling, context systems, and feedback loops that help agents generate high-quality, repository-aware pull requests, including automated pre-review checks and PR quality measurement tailored to Sentry's codebase.
- Design and build internal tools that make engineering more effective: productivity dashboards, AI-assisted issue triage, CI/CD optimizations, and tooling that reduces toil.
- Identify and remove organizational friction. Use data and direct observation to find where engineering is slowing down, recommend solutions to senior leadership, and build cross-team buy-in for changes.
- You're comfortable with ambiguity, can structure your own work, and know when to build it yourself, when to delegate, and when to say "this isn't worth doing."
- You'll prioritize and drive the work of exposing those systems programmatically, and build the connections that allow agents to operate on them end-to-end.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- This could be CI/CD or dev infra experience, or it could be AI harness tooling, AI-first coding workflows, or public contributions in this space.
- Genuine curiosity and hands-on experience with AI coding tools and agents.
- A track record of driving cross-team technical initiatives to completion.
- You can move between infrastructure, backend, and developer tooling without friction, and you bring seasoned judgment to technical decisions.
- You use data to make good decisions, and you know the best insights sometimes come from talking directly to the engineers feeling the pain.
- Experience building tools or workflows that improve how developers or AI agents work. This could be CI/CD or dev infra experience, or it could be AI harness tooling, AI-first coding workflows, or public contributions in this space. We're open to a range of backgrounds.
- Strong software and system design fundamentals.
- Genuine curiosity and hands-on experience with AI coding tools and agents. Prior machine learning experience isn't required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- comfortable presenting to senior technical leadership.
- The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $240,000 to $300,000. A successful candidate's actual base salary amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including, without limitation, the candidate's work location, education, work and other relevant experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry's employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate's position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Company's benefit plans/programs.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems or monolith decomposition (nice to have).
- Prior work on developer experience or engineering productivity programs (nice to have).
- Familiarity with code review tooling, static analysis, or automated PR pipelines (nice to have).
Compensation
- The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $240,000 to $300,000.
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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