Sentry
Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane
Remote Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 12, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Canada
Role overview
Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane
Requirements and responsibilities
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In this role you will
- 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.
You’ll love this job if you
- Enjoy building foundational distributed systems that power an entire platform.
- Care deeply about correctness, reliability, and safe infrastructure primitives.
- Like designing systems that coordinate state and data across large distributed environments.
- Prefer solving architectural problems rather than product feature work.
- Want to shape how a global platform evolves as it scales.
Qualifications
- 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.
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