Senior Software Engineer, Issue Workflow

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About Sentry

Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster. With more than $217 million in funding and 100,000+ organizations using Sentry, the company builds performance and error monitoring tools used by teams at companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian. Sentry embraces a hybrid work model with Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays set as in-office anchor days.

About the role

The Issue Workflow team is responsible for Sentry's core debugging experience, including alerts, issue search, and issue details. These are the most visited product pages and are critical to the daily workflow of thousands of software engineers. The team builds intuitive, data-intensive user interfaces to make complex debugging feel effortless. This role is a Senior Frontend Engineer position on that team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineering Manager (EM), Product Manager (PM), and Product Designer to ideate, execute, validate, and iterate quickly on new features; join customer calls to gather first-hand feedback.
• Build and maintain features using React (TypeScript) and Django (Python) in Sentry's open-source codebase.
• Work on high-impact projects across the stack: understand the event ingestion pipeline, delve into search and storage systems, and surface data to customers via backend and frontend codebases.
• Build tests and set up monitoring for your work to maintain high engineering standards.
• Raise the team's technical aptitude through code review and mentorship.
• Collaborate with technical writing staff to create user-focused documentation supporting new product features.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, and/or equivalent relevant experience.
• Strong experience with React and TypeScript (or similar frameworks and languages).
• Working experience with Django and Python (or similar frameworks and languages).
• Product-minded: treat Product and Design as peers and actively collaborate to create innovative workflows.
• Willingness to delve deeper than the application layer to understand systems and services powering the APIs you use.
• Willingness to work across other teams' codebases to unblock yourself and make maintainable changes.
• Bonus: prior experience working on innovative, product-focused teams/companies.

Technologies and systems mentioned

• React (TypeScript)
• TypeScript
• Django
• Python
• Event ingestion pipeline (Relay)
• Search and storage systems (Snuba)
• Open-source codebases (Sentry's repositories)
• Testing and monitoring tooling

Work model

• Hybrid: in-office anchor days on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Location listed as San Francisco, California.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $180,000 to $205,000 per year.
• A successful candidate's actual base salary will be determined by factors including work location, education, experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
• Eligible to participate in Sentry's employee benefit plans/programs (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage).

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

• Sentry is committed to equal employment opportunities and providing reasonable accommodations for candidates/employees with disabilities. For accommodation requests contact [email protected].