Director of Engineering, Platform (Runtime & Stateful Systems)

About Sentry
Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building.
Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

About the role
We're looking for an experienced engineering leader to own one of the most critical areas within Platform: the runtime and stateful systems Sentry runs on. You'll lead multiple engineering teams and Staff engineers responsible for OLTP and OLAP databases, real-time compute and stream processing, blob storage, and distributed caching.

These systems power Sentry's products, including Seer, and are mission-critical to the business. When they perform well, every product team moves faster. When they don't, the whole company feels the impact.

You'll set the technical vision across these systems, lead significant architectural changes, and develop the engineering leaders and teams responsible for building and operating them. This role requires someone who brings deep technical judgment, thinks strategically, and has a track record of driving complex engineering initiatives from concept through execution.

You'll have the opportunity to shape both the technical direction and organizational growth of a critical part of Sentry's platform as our products and infrastructure continue to evolve.

This is a hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with an expectation of working from our San Francisco office three days per week.

In This Role You Will
Lead multiple engineering teams and Staff engineers responsible for the runtime and stateful systems supporting Sentry, Seer, and the products built on top of them.

Set the technical vision and strategy across multiple systems, identifying opportunities to evolve our architecture as the business scales.

Drive significant architectural changes and technical initiatives, making informed tradeoffs around scalability, reliability, performance, cost, and complexity.

Provide technical leadership across teams, working closely with senior engineers to evaluate architectural decisions, challenge assumptions, and establish technical direction.

Own the execution and operational excellence of mission-critical systems, ensuring teams deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performing platform components.

Build and develop a strong engineering organization, including hiring, mentoring, and growing engineering managers and senior technical leaders.

Foster a culture of engineering excellence, technical accountability, and continuous improvement.

Partner across Platform, Infrastructure, and Product to align priorities, navigate ambiguity, and deliver complex, cross-functional initiatives.

Anticipate evolving product and infrastructure needs, identifying opportunities to build new platform capabilities and improve existing systems.

You'll love this job if you
Enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems and have strong opinions about architecture, backed by experience and sound technical judgment.

Thrive in roles where you're equally responsible for technical direction, execution, and developing engineering leaders.

Like taking ownership of ambiguous technical challenges, establishing a clear strategy, and bringing teams together to execute.

Are passionate about building large-scale systems where reliability, performance, and efficiency directly impact the business.

Enjoy partnering with senior engineers, challenging technical assumptions, and helping teams make thoughtful architectural decisions.

Take pride in building high-performing teams, developing future leaders, and raising the engineering bar.

Want to shape the runtime foundation supporting Sentry's products and AI capabilities for years to come.

Qualifications
12+ years of experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering, with