# Senior Software Engineer, Issue Detection

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 issue platform processes billions of events every day to help millions of developers find and fix bugs. The hard part is deciding which events point to a problem, which belong together, and what a developer needs to know to investigate. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Issue Detection team, you'll design, build, and operate the systems that make those decisions. You'll work on real-time processing pipelines, monitors, and analysis systems that detect problems and turn them into issues. The work combines distributed systems with product engineering. Choices about detection accuracy and processing latency affect which problems developers see and how soon they can act. You'll help shape how developers monitor their applications and how Sentry groups related events into issues. You'll also build the context developer

- **Id**: 918018
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sentry-senior-software-engineer-issue-detection>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-14T21:25:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T22:51:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5196
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Developer Tools, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 13380
- **Name**: Sentry
- **Domain**: sentry.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sentry-blog>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 28
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.071
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 111
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 155000
- **Max**: 400000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 400000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **ClickHouse** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Sentry** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 54

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-14T21:55:29Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 80
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.893
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 54
- **Expected fill days**: 111
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 400000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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