Sentry

Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling

Sentry

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $240,000 - $300,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Audit Sentry’s internal developer systems and make them API-ready for AI agents.
  • Build the harness tooling, context systems, and feedback loops that help agents generate high-quality, repository-aware pull requests.
  • Automate high-volume, low-priority engineering work: security dependency upgrades, minor bug fixes, and routine maintenance.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience building tools or workflows that improve how developers or AI agents work.
  • Strong software and system design fundamentals.
  • Genuine curiosity and hands-on experience with AI coding tools and agents.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting to senior technical leadership.
  • A track record of driving cross-team technical initiatives to completion.
  • 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).
Benefits
  • Eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position
  • Incentive compensation
  • Equity grants
  • Paid time off
  • Group health insurance coverage
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringsystem designAI coding toolslarge-scale distributed systemsmonolith decompositioncode review toolingstatic analysisautomated PR pipelinesCI/CD optimizationsdeveloper experience
Soft Skills
written communicationverbal communicationpresentation skillscross-team collaborationcuriosityinitiative