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Senior Developer Experience Engineer

San Francisco, California

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.

Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

About the role

The Developer Experience team is growing in San Francisco! This is a hybrid role out of our main headquarters and must be based there. We’re looking for a hands-on builder with strong opinions on great developer docs.

Are you someone who loves tinkering with the newest features in your favorite products? Do you enjoy taking the next random JavaScript framework for a spin and figuring out how to make them tick? Does it especially irk you when the code snippets are wrong, or the only docs for a feature are on X? Developer Experience at Sentry lives in the intersection of shipping really cool products and getting developers set up to use them.

If you’re someone who is confident in partnering with Product and Engineering to test and ship the latest features, not afraid to jump in and go hands-on to solve problems for our biggest customers, and a good eye for what good docs looks like - this is a dream role.

Developer Experience at Sentry is a team of builders who are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for every developer to use Sentry. We engage with the challenges facing technical communities, to support developers, gather feedback, and help our product and engineering teams ship new capabilities.

An engineer in this role should be confident to “come with an answer," propose the product solutions, identify the content and/or execution plans and people to partner with, and go execute.

In this role you will

  • Attend and even host events and meetups in the developer community

  • Have a point of view and aren’t shy about expressing it. You get your energy from both knowing the latest trends and having a POV on which ones to ignore. Who’s working on something interesting, who influences the conversation, and who’s going to help drive the conversation forward - while linking all this back to the core problems that Sentry is solving

  • Build content that gets people excited to build their software alongside Sentry

  • Have an ear to the street. You get excited about gathering insights from users, the developer tool world, and what's currently happening in software development.

  • Ride side by side with Engineering, Product, Design, Sales Engineering, Business Ops, and nearly every function in Marketing from Comms to Product Marketing to develop the best content and great product narratives.

You’ll love this job if you

  • Are someone who loves taking new features for a spin, learning how they tick, and testing them against your own projects

  • Are an educator, a builder, and a human router. And you know that the best way to get people excited about your product is to show, not sell, through cool concepts, useful technical tutorials, and by bringing brilliant people together

  • Are a “meh… not bad” writer who understands how to tell a useful and relevant story in 30 words as well as weave together questions to panelists for 30 minutes

  • Get excited when you hear that your job is to do ⅓ of each: Educating through useful and timely content + building community through live and virtual gatherings + Being customer-to-product influence

  • Listen as much as you talk. And you know how to build a community organically by lifting up and promoting others.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years as a developer and 3+ years in an advocacy or educational role such as developer relations/evangelism, creating technical content, leading a community of developers via forums or events

  • You have 3+ examples of technical educational content aimed for professional developers (e.g. tutorial, video series, blog series, course)

  • At least one example of your own dedicated blogs, forum or sites with a developer-focused audience and can speak to how you measured success and what promotional mechanisms you used to drive top of funnel visibility

  • At least one project using a common modern development language or framework

  • You have been an active member and contributor of technical communities, on any platform (e.g. Discord, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Twitter, TikTok)

  • Ability to prioritize competing opportunities and balance customer needs versus business priorities

  • Stellar written and verbal communication skills

  • A down-to-earth attitude, a good amount of humility, and dry sense of humor are a huge plus

The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $150,000 to $190,000 USD. 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 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.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@sentry.io.

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Location
San Francisco, California
Employment Type
Full Time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Marketing
Compensation

$150K – $190K

Plus generous equity

We're always willing to offer above our posted ranges for exceptional talent. If you feel like Sentry is the right place for you, apply and let's make it work!

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Flexible PTO

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we still pay.

Paid Parental Leave

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in your life.

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Rund vier Millionen Entwicklerinnen und Entwickler nutzen Sentry, um Fehler in ihrer Software zu finden, bevor die eigenen Nutzer sie melden. Stürzt eine App ab oder lädt eine Seite zu langsam, landet der Vorfall samt betroffener Codezeile beim zuständigen Team. Angefangen hat das 2012 als Open-Source-Projekt zweier Entwickler in San Francisco. Heute arbeiten über 200 Menschen daran, und Wien ist der europäische Standort des Unternehmens.

Sentry sammelt Abstürze, Fehlermeldungen und Performance-Daten aus laufender Software und bereitet sie so auf, dass ein Entwicklungsteam sofort sieht, was schiefgelaufen ist: welche Zeile Code, welche Version, wie viele Nutzer betroffen sind. Unterstützt werden über 100 Programmiersprachen und Frameworks. Nach eigenen Angaben verarbeitet die Plattform täglich mehr als 190 Milliarden solcher Ereignisse, für über 130.000 Organisationen in 146 Ländern. Zu den Kunden zählen Cloudflare und Reddit ebenso wie Duolingo, Atlassian und Anthropic. Wer hier arbeitet, baut also an Werkzeugen mit, die in sehr vielen anderen Firmen täglich im Einsatz sind.

Die Open-Source-Wurzeln sind geblieben. Der Quellcode ist öffentlich einsehbar, und 2025 hat Sentry 750.000 US-Dollar an die Maintainer jener freien Projekte ausgeschüttet, auf denen die eigene Plattform aufbaut. Das sind rund 5.700 Dollar pro Entwicklerin und Entwickler im Haus. Das Modell hat das Unternehmen als Open Source Pledge auch anderen Firmen vorgeschlagen, ein ungewöhnlich konkreter Beitrag an eine Community, aus der viele Bewerber selbst kommen.

In Wien-Leopoldstadt, nahe dem Prater, ist seit August 2020 die Functional Software GmbH eingetragen, eine Tochter der US-Muttergesellschaft Functional Software, Inc. Von hier aus entsteht ein Gutteil der SDKs, also jener Bausteine, die Kunden direkt in ihre eigenen Programme einbauen. Zuletzt suchte der Standort etwa eine Senior-Entwicklerin für das iOS-SDK, eine Person für die Datenaufnahme und jemanden für das Security-Team rund um Identity- und Zugriffsmanagement. Sentry selbst beschreibt Wien als europäischen Hub und verweist auf hohe Mitarbeiterbindung sowie die Nähe zur Open-Source-Szene der Stadt.

Engineering ist weltweit die mit Abstand größte Berufsgruppe, daneben gibt es Teams in Customer Success, Support, Sicherheit und Marketing. Zum Gehalt kommen Unternehmensanteile. Die Karriereseite nennt außerdem ein eigenes Budget für berufliche Weiterbildung, bezahlte Elternzeit und eine flexible Urlaubsregelung. Wie viele der über 200 Beschäftigten auf Wien entfallen, weist das Unternehmen nicht offiziell aus. Neben San Francisco, Wien und Toronto schreibt Sentry inzwischen auch Stellen in Amsterdam, Sydney und New York aus, aktuell rund 47 offene Positionen, der Großteil davon in der Entwicklung.

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