Senior Software Engineer, Sentry
Issue Detection
$180-205k
Benefits may include incentive compensation and equity grants
Application performance monitoring & error tracking software
Job no longer available
Application performance monitoring & error tracking software
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180-205k
Benefits may include incentive compensation and equity grants
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower developer teams to build their best possible software, more quickly and easily.
Role
Who you are
- You are a product-minded software engineer. You regard Product and Design as your peers, and you seek collaboration to create innovative workflows
- You are highly detail oriented but know how to make pragmatic tradeoffs to deliver impact quickly
- You are excited to roll up your sleeves to dive into another team’s codebase to unblock yourself, making good, maintainable changes and earning the recognition of your counterparts
- You relish the idea of making small improvements to a tool that magnifies into days of saved time across our customer base
- You want to be the change you seek in the world of developer 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
- 6+ years professional engineering experience
- 4+ years of experience working on and operating large-scale distributed systems
- 2+ years of experience with Python and Django or similar web framework
- Solid understanding and experience with distributed systems, data modeling, and applying tradeoffs
- Experience with end-to-end ownership of a large feature or system
- Experience writing and presenting technical documentation
- Team level mentorship and leadership experience on large projects
- Familiarity with Rust or other system-level programming language is a plus
- Familiarity with TypeScript or JavaScript is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on Sentry’s Issue Detection team, you’ll join a cross-functional team of engineers responsible for our most used product experience
- This is a high-impact tech lead role; Errors and Issues are the main entry point for users to Sentry
- We build and maintain features including: issue detection and error grouping as well as many of their downstream effects
- In this role you will also help define the future direction of a product that is loved by millions of developers worldwide
- Collaborating directly with other teams throughout the company, becoming a member of our backend technical steering committee, establishing ownership of a feature set and growing your technical skills are just a few of the other activities you can expect from this role
- Build and maintain features/integrations with other SaaS services using Django (Python) in our open-source codebase
- Work closely with product management and the larger engineering organization to define, implement and ship new features
- Have opportunities to work on high-impact projects that touch the entire stack: understanding the event ingestion pipeline; delving into search and storage systems; and surfacing that data to our customers on our backend and frontend codebases (did we mention that almost all of them are open-source?)
- Raise the team’s technical aptitude through code review and mentorship
- Tech lead high value initiatives and implement high quality features driving engineering excellence
- Collaborate with technical writing staff to create user-focused documentation that supports new product features
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. And the company is well-positioned for significant growth as 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 the end of 2026 with an annual growth rate of almost 10%. Further, the company opened another office in Denver in early 2023, expanding its regional presence, as it continues to broaden its market presence.
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Insights
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
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Commuter Stipend
- Professional Development Stipend
- Health & Wellness Benefits
- Charitable Matching Program
- Flexible PTO
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401k Plan
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
David Cramer
(Co-Founder & CPO)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
(Co-Founder & 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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