About this role

Architect and build the next generation of Sentry’s usage tracking pipeline, processing hundreds of billions of events daily with low latency and financial-grade accuracy.
Design flexible pricing primitives that support everything from per-event usage billing to complex enterprise contracts.
Lead technical decisions on data consistency challenges unique to billing—like handling event delays, retroactive pricing changes, and distributed count reconciliation across our infrastructure.
Establish billing-specific engineering standards across Sentry—defining patterns for usage tracking, financial data modeling, and audit logging that other teams can adopt

Built or significantly improved systems that handle financial data or high-stakes accuracy requirements—billing systems, payment processing, accounting platforms, or financial data pipelines.
Experience with data modeling — distilling complex business problems into elegant, maintainable schemas
Mentored engineers through ambiguous, high-stakes projects where technical decisions have direct revenue implications.
Operated services at Sentry’s scale (millions of events per second) where reliability includes uptime and also financial correctness.

Staff Software Engineer, Billing

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