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Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building.\nTrusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.\nAbout the role\nThe Streaming Platform team at Sentry is building the next generation of infrastructure that powers our ingestion pipelines and real-time data processing systems. Our platform ingests, processes, and distributes hundreds of thousands of events per second with low latency and high reliability. We are creating a system that makes it easy for Sentry engineers to deploy and run Streaming Applications at scale by simplifying the complexity of Kafka, scaling consumers automatically, and managing state so product teams can focus on building great experiences for developers.\nAs part of this team, you will work on challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time data processing, and developer experience. 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