engineering
Posted 1 hour agoSenior Software Engineer, Billing Platform
at Sentry
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Requirements
- Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.
- Their work directly impacts company revenue and customer trust, requiring distributed systems expertise, attention to financial accuracy, and deep understanding of product usage patterns.
Benefits
- The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $190,000 to $280,000.
- A successful candidate’s actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including, without limitation, the candidate’s work location, education, work and other relevant experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
- A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry
Additional details
- 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.
- ABOUT THE TEAM The Billing team sits at the intersection of product, finance, and infrastructure.
- They're responsible for ensuring every observable event—errors, logs, traces, tokens—gets accurately measured, priced, and billed.
- 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 Sentry's billing infrastructure, ensuring accuracy and reliability at massive scale.
- - You will collaborate on building the next generation of Sentry’s 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 billing—like handling event delays, retroactive pricing changes, and distributed count reconciliation across our infrastructure.
- YOU'LL LOVE THIS JOB IF YOU - Want to solve the "easy to explain, hard to build" problems—like ensuring a customer's bill matches their usage perfectly, even when processing hundreds of billions of events daily across distributed systems.