Senior Software Engineer, Sentry
Developer Infrastructure
$190-400k
Offers Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Application performance monitoring & error tracking software
Open for applications
Application performance monitoring & error tracking software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$190-400k
Offers Equity
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 enjoy building tools and infrastructure other engineers rely on
- You consider reliability, performance, cost, and maintenance when making technical decisions
- You take ownership from understanding a problem through implementation, rollout, and operation
- 5+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent experience building developer tools and infrastructure
- A track record of building or significantly improving developer tooling or infrastructure used by engineering teams
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience improving CI/CD systems, including diagnosing performance or reliability problems
- Experience leading complex technical projects through design, implementation, and rollout
- Experience using Docker and container orchestration in production
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure such as GCP or AWS
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code tools
- Experience working across engineering teams to build agreement on tools, standards, or workflow changes
- Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining technical tradeoffs and documenting how systems work
- You don’t need to meet every qualification to apply. If your experience aligns with the core work, we’d like to hear from you
What the job involves
- The Developer Infrastructure team builds the systems Sentry engineers use to develop, test, and ship software. We own local and cloud development environments, CI/CD across our open-source and private codebases, tooling for creating new services, and SDK and library publishing
- Our goal is to help engineers spend more time building for customers and less time troubleshooting their development tools. You’ll work on problems such as shortening CI feedback cycles, improving deployment reliability, detecting flaky tests, and making development environments easier to use and maintain
- As AI coding agents become part of engineering workflows, you’ll also help our environments, CI, and deployment systems support them with the context and access they need
- You’ll own projects from design through rollout and ongoing operation, working directly with engineers across Sentry to understand their needs and measure whether your changes improve their work
- Build and maintain tooling for local and cloud development environments
- Improve the speed and reliability of CI and deployment pipelines as our codebases and infrastructure grow
- Develop supported, reusable workflows for creating services and libraries
- Improve SDK and library publishing tools and release processes
- Build metrics, dashboards, and flaky test detection to help teams identify and resolve development and deployment problems
- Give engineers and AI coding agents the context they need to work within Sentry’s systems and conventions
- Partner with engineering teams to prioritize improvements, support adoption, and evaluate results
- You listen to engineers’ feedback and use evidence to guide improvements
- You help teams adopt shared tools and standards through clear reasoning and collaboration
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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