Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling
Sentry · San Francisco, CA
$240,000–$320,000
Jul 9, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on making internal developer systems accessible to AI coding agents, and building the tooling infrastructure those agents need to operate effectively within Sentry's codebase. Day-to-day work spans auditing and exposing internal APIs, constructing harness and context systems for agent-generated pull requests, and automating routine engineering tasks. Suited to a seasoned engineer with broad platform and developer tooling experience who has hands-on familiarity with AI coding workflows.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $240,000–$300,000
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title carries no seniority level word, so the title states no level; however, the 10+ years requirement and the broad cross-team, senior-leadership-facing scope firmly support a Senior classification.
The Qualifications section lists two distinct tracks as acceptable backgrounds — CI/CD / dev-infra experience OR AI harness / AI-first coding workflows — so neither is treated as a harder gate than the other; both are captured under the must-have skills.
Claude Code is named only as an illustrative example of an AI coding tool in the role narrative, not as a gated requirement; it is marked preferred accordingly.
'Distributed systems or monolith decomposition', 'developer experience or engineering productivity programs', and 'code review tooling / static analysis / automated PR pipelines' are all explicitly called out as 'nice to have' in the Qualifications section.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
Compensation is quoted as a base salary range of $240,000–$300,000 per year, with additional eligibility for incentive compensation and equity grants.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): API design, static analysis.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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