Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
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 200000 organizations Sentry is todays application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.
About the role
Sentrys Developer Infrastructure team is one of the companys most critical force multipliers. Every engineer at Sentry depends on the tooling we build including CI/CD systems development environments and golden paths for software development to ship high-quality software quickly and safely. As Sentry moves into a world where developers work alongside multiple coding agents in parallel Dev Infra has a central role in shaping how that new development lifecycle works.
As the Engineering Manager for Dev Infra youll lead a talented team of engineers building the platform that supports both developers and the agents working alongside them: reproducible cloud-based development environments fast and trustworthy CI/CD pipelines queryable development-lifecycle context and the infrastructure for background agents. Youll be responsible for technical vision team health system reliability and cross-functional partnership across the entire engineering org.
Youll work closely with experienced engineers and leaders across Infrastructure Platform and Product to shape how every engineer at Sentry harnesses AI to build software. This role also presents a strong growth opportunity as we expect this leader to take on additional charters and teams over time as the Dev Infra organization expands.
In this role you will
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 Sentrys Dev Infra platform across reproducible cloud environments CI/CD development-lifecycle context and the background agent platform
Own the teams 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 teams roadmap while fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration
Youll love this job if you
Are passionate about developer productivity and building platforms that enable other engineers to move faster
Are excited about the shift toward agent-assisted development and want to play a central role in defining how that future works at Sentry
Enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges across CI/CD cloud environments and observability and turning them into clean usable abstractions
Value cross-functional collaboration and thrive in hybrid in-person settings with engineers across functions levels and geographies
Have a long-term vision for developer infrastructure and are excited by the opportunity to take on broader organizational scope over time
Take pride in building strong healthy teams and enabling them to lead high-impact multi-year initiatives
Want to be part of a thoughtful highly technical team that cares about long-term system health and developer happiness
Qualifications
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
Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications We encourage you to apply anyway. Were interested in people who are excited about this opportunity and eager to grow.
The base salary range (or hourly wage range if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $220000 to $300000. A successful candidates actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including without limitation the candidates work location education work and other relevant experience skills and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentrys employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidates position (including incentive compensation equity grants paid time off and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Companys benefit plans/programs.
Equal Opportunity at Sentry
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.
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