Developer Engineer

Bad software is everywhere, and we’re tired of it. Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster so we can get back to enjoying technology.

With more than $217 million in funding and 100,000+ organizations that believe we’re on to something, we’re building performance and error monitoring tools that help companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian spend less time fixing bugs and more time building products.

Sentry embraces a hybrid work model, with Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays set as in‑office anchor days to encourage meaningful collaboration. If you like to selfishly build things that make your digital life better, come help us build the next generation of software monitoring tools.

The Developer Experience is growing in San Francisco! This is a hybrid‑role out of our main headquarters. We’re looking for a hands‑on builder with strong opinions on great developer docs.

If you’re someone who is confident in partnering with Product and Engineering to test and ship the latest features, not afraid to jump in and go hands‑on to solve problems for our biggest and a good eye for what good docs looks like - this is a dream role.

Developer Experience at Sentry is a team of builders who are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for every developer to use Sentry. We engage with the challenges facing technical communities, to support developers, gather feedback, and help our product and engineering teams ship new capabilities.

An engineer in this role should be confident to “come with an answer”, propose the product solutions, identify the content and/or execution plans and people to partner with, and go execute.

Manage the docs platform, with freedom to shape it how you see fit, to answer the age old question of “what does great developer documentation look like”

Attend and even host events and meetups in the developer community

Have a point of view and aren’t shy about expressing it. You get your energy from both knowing the latest trends and having a POV on which ones to ignore. Who’s working on something interesting, who influences the conversation, and who’s going to help drive the conversation forward - while linking all this back to the core problems that Sentry is solving

Build content that gets people excited to build their software alongside Sentry

Have an ear to the street. You get excited about gathering insights from users, the developer tool world, and what's currently happening in software development.

Ride side by side with Engineering, Product, Design, Sales engineering, Business Ops, and nearly every function in Marketing from Comms to Product Marketing to develop the best content and great product narratives.

Are someone who loves taking new features for a spin, learning how they tick, and testing them against your own projects

Are an educator, a builder, and a human router. And you know that the best way to get people excited about your product is to show, not sell, through cool concepts, useful technical tutorials, and by bringing brilliant people together

Are “meh… not bad” writer who understands how to tell a useful and relevant story in 30 words as well as weave together questions to panelists for 30 minutes

Get excited when you hear that your job is to do ⅓ of each:
Educating through useful and timely content + building community through live and virtual gatherings + Being customer‑to‑product influence

Listen as much as you talk. And you know how to build a community organically by lifting up and promoting others.

5+ years as a developer and 3+ years in an advocacy or educational role such as developer relations/evangelism, creating technical content, leading a community of developers via forums or events

You have 3+ examples of technical educational content aimed for professional developers (e.g. tutorial, video series, blog series, course)

At least one example of your own dedicated blogs, forum or sites with a developer‑focused audience and can speak to how you measured success and what promotional mechanisms you used to drive top of funnel visibility

At least one project using…