About Sentry: Fueling the Future of Software Development
The digital world runs on software, and the pace of innovation is accelerating. At Sentry, we empower developers to build, innovate, and ship with confidence. We help teams proactively identify and resolve errors and performance bottlenecks before they impact users, transforming firefighting into building. Trusted by over 200,000 organizations, Sentry sets the standard for application monitoring, and we're boldly engineering its AI-native future.
The Mission: Security Engineer, Identity & Access Management
The Sentry Security Team is the bedrock of trust, safeguarding everything from our customers and our code to our infrastructure. We are a small, high-impact team operating with broad scope, immense trust, and the autonomy to creatively tackle complex security challenges with an engineering-first mindset. Embedded within a robust developer culture, we secure a product beloved and relied upon by millions of developers. This unique context defines our approach to security.
As our **Security Engineer, Identity & Access Management (IAM)**, you will be pivotal in architecting, enhancing, and maintaining Sentry's identity and access control ecosystem. You'll be the visionary shaping access practices that enable productivity while ensuring impenetrable security as we scale. Collaborating closely with our Infrastructure, IT, and Platform teams, you'll design and implement efficient, secure self-service workflows, making the secure path the intuitive and obvious choice for every Sentry employee.
What You'll Drive: Key Responsibilities
**Architect & Elevate IAM:** Own and strategically mature our identity and access management infrastructure and tooling, encompassing SSO, MFA, and directory services across corporate, development, and production cloud environments.
**Automate for Scale:** Continuously enhance Sentry’s identity and access control practices through robust automation and self-service support for critical workflows including onboarding/offboarding, joiners/movers/leavers, access reviews, privileged access management (PAM), SaaS lifecycle management, and security incident response.
**Champion Secure-by-Design:** Implement and advocate for cutting-edge access principles such as attribute and context-aware grants, comprehensive logging, just-in-time (JIT) provisioning, least privilege, policy-as-code automation, and zero-trust architectures.
**Fortify All Identities:** Secure the spectrum of human and non-human identities, including user accounts, service accounts, API keys, OAuth clients, agentic identities, and workload identities.
Who You Are: Your Impact & Attributes
**Cross-Functional Catalyst:** You excel at operating cross-functionally, building strong relationships, influencing with deep technical expertise, and shaping how builders securely access resources across a dynamic engineering organization.
**Curiosity-Driven Problem Solver:** You're energized by novelty – whether it's a new feature spec, an authentication bypass, an innovative agentic architecture, an unfamiliar cloud primitive, or an emerging bug class. You see challenges as opportunities to learn and secure.
**Developer-Centric Security Advocate:** You thrive in a developer-forward culture, collaborating with colleagues who are passionate about code quality and customer satisfaction.
**Automation Evangelist:** Your first instinct is to automate. You prefer building scalable, systematic solutions to security problems over manual, repetitive tasks.
**Empowered Owner:** You embrace real ownership, preferring to build and drive work end-to-end. The autonomy of a small, high-trust team fuels your energy and creativity.
Qualifications: Your Foundation for Success
3+ years of industry experience designing, building, and securing workforce identity and access control systems for corporate, development, and large-scale distributed cloud environments.
Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or relevant professional experience.
Proficiency in Python and other scripting languages, Terraform and infrastructure-as-code tools, and building integrations via APIs, SCIM, and webhooks.
Demonstrated experience with a breadth of identity platforms (IDP, IGA, PAM, CloudIAM, etc.).
Familiarity with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and securing CI/CD and source control tools (GitHub, GitLab).
A collaborative approach to problem-solving, coupled with strong written and verbal communication skills.
Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications? We encourage you to apply anyway! We're interested in passionate individuals eager to learn and grow with us.
Compensation & Benefits
The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $155,000 to $240,000 USD. A successful candidate’s actual base salary 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 Benefits for more details about the Company’s benefit plans/programs.
Equal Opportunity at Sentry
Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.
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