Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Core Product

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on Sentry’s Issues team, you’ll join a cross-functional team of engineers responsible for our most used product experience. This is a high-impact role; Errors and Issues are the main entry point for users to Sentry. We build and maintain features including: issue detection and search, error grouping, and issue workflows as well as status updates and 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 frontend 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.

In this role you will

• Build and maintain features/integrations with other SaaS services using React (TypeScript) and Django (Python) in our open-source codebase.
• Work closely with product management and the team to define, implement and ship new features.
• Build tests and set up monitoring for your work to maintain a high engineering standard for Sentry.
• 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.

You’ll love this job if you

• 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 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.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience working on large-scale applications
• 3+ years of experience with TypeScript and React or similar web framework
• 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 Django and Python is a plus

The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $175,000 to $200,000. A successful candidate’s actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including, without limitation, the candidate’s work location, education, work and other relevant experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Company’s benefit plans/programs.