Senior Software Engineer, Sentry
APIs and Integrations
$190-215k
Error tracking and app monitoring software
Open for applications
Error tracking and app monitoring software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$190-215k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower developer teams to build their best possible software, more quickly and easily.
Role
Who you are
- Are a product-minded software engineer. You regard Product and Design as your peers, and you seek collaboration to create
- Have good intuitions to recognize a great developer experience on the API layer and product layer, and you strive to make sure you are shipping features that raises that bar for us
- Operate with a high level of ownership over the outcomes of your work, and you expect the same from your team
- Have excellent organization skills and you can articulate priorities to the team. You understand the challenge of shipping new features while maintaining existing functionality, and you have found the balance between them in previous roles
- Want to be the change you seek in the world of dev tooling. You recognize that you are the target user for Sentry, and you want to have an influence on the things that make it into the product
- 8+ years of experience building user-facing web applications and APIs
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, or related field, and/or relevant experience
- Have substantial experience with backend frameworks/languages to build large-scale web applications. Brownie points for familiarity with Django
- Have experience with frontend frameworks/languages to be self-sufficient on simple changes
- Have experience leading engineering teams or complex technical projects
What the job involves
- Build and maintain features/integrations with other SaaS services using Django (Python) and React (TypeScript) in our open-source codebase
- Build and maintain API tooling and related services, and help engineers across the company to adopt them in their teams
- Design and implement scalable interfaces that can be reused within broad categories of SaaS apps (e.g. communication apps like Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams)
- Research other SaaS apps, either through documentation or hands-on exploration, to find the best way to augment Sentry’s product experience with them
- Contribute to the engineering goals of the team, and advocate for your ideas to be included in the product roadmap
- Build tests, set up monitoring and alerts for your work to maintain a high engineering standard for Sentry
- Review code from your teammates and mentor less-experienced engineers
Our take
Defective software leads to dissatisfied users, disruptions and potential financial losses for companies. Sentry has created application monitoring and error tracking software to help developers fix errors faster, easier and more cost effectively.
More than 1 million developers and 70,000 organizations worldwide, including the likes of Microsoft, Disney, Atlassian, Cloudflare and Slack have used Sentry to monitor their code health. The company is well positioned for significant growth. There is an emerging need for solutions that address holistic application health. As more companies focus on digital to engage with their customers, the reliability of their applications is essential.
The global bug-tracking software market is expected to reach over $600 million by 2026 with an annual growth rate of almost 10%. Further, the company has also opened another office in Denver in early 2023, expanding its regional presence, and has announced additional functionality in its platform, all of which bodes well for Sentry's future.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$90m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$60m
SERIES D
Total funding: $216.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive Compensation + Equity
- 401k Plan
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Commuter Stipend
- Professional Development Stipend
- Health & Wellness Benefits
- Charitable Matching Program
- Flexible PTO
- Paid Parental Leave
Company values
- Pixels matter - We understand that the difference between a good product and a great one is in the finer details. We take extra care to get everything right, down to the last pixel
- Feedback is priceless - White lies help no one. We give each other constructive, respectful, and sincere feedback for the best collective outcome and most personal growth. (On our work, that is. We'll keep opinions on your floral-patterned pants to ourselves)
- Step by step - We don't expect to get things right the first time around. We do our best work by iterating: making small changes, measuring impact, and trying again (and again, and sometimes again)
- For every developer - Sentry is a tool for everyone who codes. We strive to create a product that's accessible (and indispensable) to developers at any level, at companies big, small, and everything beyond and in between
- Work in progress - We know that we don't know everything. Nothing here is set in stone. We're still filling roles and writing rules, as a team. In the meantime, we embrace individual ownership, autonomy, and accountability
- Value people - We respect one another. We understand that success comes from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, skills, and opinions — not in spite of it. Even if we disagree on the route, we still push forward to the end
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
David Cramer
(CTO)They started their career as a Software Engineer at Curse, before roles at Enthropia, Disqus, and Dropbox. Having co-founded Sentry in January 2012, they left Dropbox in 2015.
Chris Jennings
(Chief Creative Officer)They have been a Frontend Developer at AgencyTen, Director of Design and UX at Disqus and most recently a Product Designer at GitHub.
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