Senior Backend Software Engineer, Sentry

Product Foundations

CA$174-199k

+ Eligibility to participate in incentive compensation and equity grant programs

React

TypeScript

Python

Django

Sentry

Senior and Expert level

Toronto

More information about location

3 days a week in office

Application performance monitoring & error tracking software

Job no longer available

Application performance monitoring & error tracking software

201-500 employees

B2BSecuritySaaS

Job no longer available

CA$174-199k

+ Eligibility to participate in incentive compensation and equity grant programs

React

TypeScript

Python

Django

Sentry

Senior and Expert level

Toronto

More information about location

3 days a week in office

201-500 employees

B2BSecuritySaaS

Company mission

To empower developer teams to build their best possible software, more quickly and easily.

Job

Company

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 want to delve deeper than the application layer to understand the systems and services powering the APIs that you are using
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 of professional software engineering experience
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, or related field, and/or relevant experience
Strong experience with Django/Python (or similar frameworks and languages)
Working experience with React/Typescript (or similar frameworks and languages) to be self-sufficient on simple changes

What the job involves

The Product Foundation team is divided into two specialized pods: Alerts and Ecosystem
The Alerts pod is responsible for Sentry's core alerting functionality, ensuring users are promptly notified about critical issues in their applications
The Ecosystem pod owns Sentry’s integrations with other SaaS tools, enhancing custom workflows for our users
Additionally, the team maintains the foundational components of Sentry, including critical features like authentication, organization settings and configuration, and other essential building blocks of a SaaS product
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the team
Build and maintain features/integrations with other SaaS services using React (TypeScript) and Django (Python) in our open-source codebase
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?)
Build tests and set up monitoring for your work to maintain a high engineering standard for Sentry
Foster growth and raise the team’s technical aptitude through code review and mentorship
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.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

28% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Trustpilot (3.3)

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

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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