engineering
Posted 5 days agoStaff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling
at Sentry
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Build the harness tooling, context systems, and feedback loops that help agents generate high-quality, repository-aware pull requests, including automated pre-review checks and PR quality measurement tailored to Sentry’s codebase.
- - Automate high-volume, low-priority engineering work: security dependency upgrades, minor bug fixes, and routine maintenance, so engineers can focus on higher-value work.
- - Design and build internal tools that make engineering more effective: productivity dashboards, AI-assisted issue triage, CI/CD optimizations, and tooling that reduces toil.
- Use data and direct observation to find where engineering is slowing down, recommend solutions to senior leadership, and build cross-team buy-in for changes.
Requirements
- Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.
- Instead, you’ll sit within Platform Engineering, own the AI-assisted coding domain, and work across all of engineering at Sentry, focused specifically on how AI coding agents participate in our software development lifecycle.
- For AI coding agents to work well in our repo, the internal systems they depend on need to be accessible via API, not locked behind UIs that require human interaction.
- From there, the scope expands to improving the quality of AI-generated pull requests and automating the engineering work that’s important but consistently deprioritized.
- WHAT YOU’LL DO - Audit Sentry’s internal developer systems and make them API-ready for AI agents.
- YOU’LL LOVE THIS JOB IF YOU… - You’re passionate about AI coding tools and curious about how to make them better.
- You follow the space closely, have opinions about what works, and want to be at the frontier of how AI participates in real-world software development. - You’re high agency.
- Experience building tools or workflows that improve how developers or AI agents work.
- This could be CI/CD or dev infra experience, or it could be AI harness tooling, AI-first coding workflows, or public contributions in this space.
- We’re open to a range of backgrounds. - Strong software and system design fundamentals. - Genuine curiosity and hands-on
- experience with AI coding tools and agents. Prior machine learning