[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sentry is a leading application monitoring standard that helps developers fix errors and performance issues efficiently. The Senior Software Engineer on the CTRL team will design and operate core platform primitives for distributed coordination, routing, and lifecycle orchestration, ensuring the platform operates safely and correctly at scale.
Responsibilities
- Build and enhance the control plane systems that manage customer identity, placement, and lifecycle across a multi-cell architecture
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of mission-critical control plane services
- Partner with engineering teams to provide safe infrastructure primitives and standards for cell-compatible systems
- Help operate critical infrastructure through incident response and continuous improvement
Skills
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar role
- Strong proficiency with Python; experience with Rust is a plus
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
- Strong understanding of replication, consistency models, and service coordination
- Experience building infrastructure services or platform APIs used by multiple teams
- Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience operating containerized systems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Track record of operating production systems with strong ownership
- Strong written communication skills and ability to document platform systems clearly
Benefits
- Incentive compensation
- Equity grants
- Paid time off
- Group health insurance coverage
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