Senior Backend Software Engineer, Sentry
Product Foundations
CA$174-199k
+ Eligibility to participate in incentive compensation and equity grant programs
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Error tracking and app monitoring software
Open for applications
Error tracking and app monitoring software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
CA$174-199k
+ Eligibility to participate in incentive compensation and equity grant programs
More information about location
3 days a week in office
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 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. 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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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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