Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure

Sentry

Engineering Manager overseeing Developer Infrastructure team to enhance developer productivity at Sentry. Focused on building essential tools for software development and fostering a high-performing engineering culture.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $220,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a team of engineers building the platform that accelerates every engineer at Sentry, making them more effective at shipping high-quality software.
Drive the evolution of Sentry's Dev Infra platform across reproducible cloud environments, CI/CD, development-lifecycle context, and the background agent platform.
Own the team's technical direction and architecture, contributing to key technical decisions on remote dev environments, selective testing, golden paths, and agent orchestration.
Nurture and grow engineers at different levels, providing support through coaching, mentorship, and career development.
Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on ownership, learning, and delivery.
Collaborate with product and platform engineering teams to make AI-assisted development workflows fast, safe, and observable.
Own the reliability, performance, and adoption of the team's roadmap while fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with a focus on developer infrastructure, build/CI systems, platform engineering, or distributed systems
4+ years of engineering management experience, including growing and managing teams of engineers across multiple charters
Experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager leading the architecture, development, and long-term evolution of developer-facing platforms (CI/CD systems, development environments, build infrastructure, or similar)
Familiarity with modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar), cloud-based development environments, and container/VM orchestration
Working knowledge of AI-assisted development workflows and a point of view on how coding agents change developer infrastructure requirements
Strong technical communication skills and a track record of effective cross-team and leadership collaboration
Proven experience delivering and owning multi-year engineering initiatives in a leadership or technical leadership capacity
Comfortable working across org boundaries and aligning product, infra, and platform priorities.

Benefits

Comp & perks

paid time off
group health insurance coverage
equity grants
incentive compensation

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringdeveloper infrastructurebuild systemsCI/CD systemsplatform engineeringdistributed systemsarchitectureAI-assisted development workflowstechnical leadershipengineering management

Soft Skills

coachingmentorshipcareer developmentteam culturecollaborationtechnical communicationcross-team collaborationownershiplearningdelivery