
Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling
Sentry
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $240,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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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