Senior Software Engineer, Billing Platform

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 team

The Billing team sits at the intersection of product finance and infrastructure. Theyre responsible for ensuring every observable eventerrors logs traces tokensgets accurately measured priced and billed. Their work directly impacts company revenue and customer trust requiring distributed systems expertise attention to financial accuracy and deep understanding of product usage patterns. The team works cross-functionally with product engineering BizOps marketing and sales to build systems that enable new products and pricing models.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer you will architect and scale the core systems that power Sentrys billing infrastructure ensuring accuracy and reliability at massive scale.

• You will collaborate on building the next generation of Sentrys usage tracking pipeline processing hundreds of billions of events daily with low latency and financial-grade accuracy.

• You will help design flexible pricing primitives that support everything from per-event usage billing to complex enterprise contracts enabling product and sales teams to experiment rapidly while maintaining revenue accuracy and reduced time-to-market for new products.

• You will contribute to technical decisions on data consistency challenges unique to billinglike handling event delays retroactive pricing changes and distributed count reconciliation across our infrastructure.

Youll love this job if you

• Want to solve the easy to explain hard to build problemslike ensuring a customers bill matches their usage perfectly even when processing hundreds of billions of events daily across distributed systems.

• Thrive on constraints that force elegant design: financial accuracy is non-negotiable customer trust depends on billing transparency and the system must scale with Sentrys user and product growth without rearchitecting every year.

• Enjoy partnering across the organizationfrom BizOps and sales to marketing and leadershipwhere your code directly impacts ARR and your architectural decisions show up in board-level metrics.

To thrive in this role you have

• Built or significantly improved systems with high-stakes accuracy requirements.

• Mentored engineers through ambiguous high-stakes projects.

• Operated services where reliability includes uptime and also financial correctness.

The base salary range (or hourly wage range if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $200000 to $295000 CAD. 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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Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Department / Functional Area: Engineering
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Yearly Salary Salary: 200000 - 295000