Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

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

Sentry's Infrastructure Engineering team focuses on making operating Sentry simple, safe, and seamless for the rest of the engineering organization. The team builds and operates foundational infrastructure, internal control and configuration systems, and the tooling and automation that allow engineers to deploy, manage, and safely operate production services at scale without needing to understand the underlying infrastructure complexity.

As the Engineering Manager for Infrastructure Engineering, you'll lead a team of engineers building the foundational infrastructure, internal control systems, and developer-facing tools that enable Sentry's engineering teams to operate production services safely and efficiently at scale.

This team focuses on making infrastructure easier to use and manage through automation, self-service tooling, and software abstractions that reduce operational complexity. You'll be responsible for the team's technical direction, execution, reliability, and growth, while partnering with engineering teams across Sentry to identify and solve shared infrastructure challenges.

You'll work closely with leaders across Infrastructure, Platform, and Production Engineering to shape how Sentry scales its infrastructure and operational model as the company grows.

In this role you will

• Lead a team of engineers building and evolving the shared infrastructure, internal control systems, and developer-facing tools that Sentry's engineering teams rely on.

• Drive improvements to infrastructure automation, configuration management, production safety, and developer self-service, making complex infrastructure easier and safer to operate.

• Define and execute the team's technical roadmap, working with senior engineers to make sound architectural decisions and prioritize investments in reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Develop engineers at different levels through coaching, mentorship, clear expectations, and opportunities for technical growth and ownership.

• Build a healthy, high-performing team culture focused on accountability, continuous improvement, and delivering measurable impact.

• Partner with Production Engineering, SRE, Developer Infrastructure, and other engineering teams to identify shared infrastructure challenges, establish standards, and improve developer workflows.

• Balance operational needs with longer-term platform investments, reducing manual work and building scalable solutions rather than relying on one-off fixes.

• Own the reliability, adoption, and ongoing evolution of the team's platforms and tools, ensuring they deliver meaningful value to the engineers who depend on them.

You'll love this job if you

• Enjoy building infrastructure platforms and tools that make operating complex production systems simpler for other engineers.

• Like solving infrastructure challenges through software engineering, automation, and self-service abstractions rather than relying on manual operations.

• Believe in using proven technologies and choosing reliable, maintainable solutions over unnecessary complexity.

• Think about scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency from the beginning, and prefer building solutions that serve many engineering teams rather than one.

• Enjoy working across engineering organizations, understanding different teams' needs, and influencing technical decisions and platform adoption.

• Take pride in developing engineers, building strong teams, and creating opportunities for people to take on greater technical ownership.

• Value clear priorities, measurable outcomes, and delivering infrastructure improvements that make a lasting difference.

• Want to work on technically challenging infrastructure problems while helping shape the team's long-term direction.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with a focus on infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or infrastructure automation.

• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including leading, developing, and growing teams of software engineers.

• Experience leading the architecture, development, or evolution of shared infrastructure platforms, internal developer platforms, or distributed production systems.

• Strong software engineering foundation, with experience in backend or systems programming languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or similar.

• Hands-on technical experience with cloud infrastructure and familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling, and infrastructure automation.

• Experience building or operating production infrastructure, with an understanding of reliability, scalability, operational risk, and incident management.

• Demonstrated ability to define technical direction, evaluate architectural tradeoffs, and lead complex engineering initiatives from planning through delivery.

• Experience coaching engineers, developing technical leaders, and building healthy, accountable engineering teams.

• Strong technical communication skills and a track record of influencing decisions and aligning priorities across engineering teams and leadership.

• Comfortable working across organizational boundaries and partnering with infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams.

The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $220,000 to $400,000 USD, plus an annual performance bonus of up to 15% of base salary. A successful candidate’s actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including, without limitation, the candidate’s work location, education, work and other relevant experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Company’s 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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