Sentry.io
Senior Software Engineer, Product Foundations (Backend)
Sentry.io, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
About Sentry
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. If you like to selfishly build things that make your digital life better, come help us build the next generation of software monitoring tools.About the role
Product Foundation consist of 2 main pods: Alerts & Notification, and Ecosystem. The Alerts & Notifications pod owns the core alerting functionality in Sentry. The Ecosystem pod owns connectors to other SaaS tools to send these alerts. The team focuses on projects that will embed Sentry tightly with our users’ workflows, and provide actionable insights on issues in their code so they can fix them. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the team.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 .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 ?).Write tests for your code to maintain a high code quality and raise the engineering standard for Sentry.Set up monitoring and alerting to ensure application health and uptime.Review code and mentor less-experienced engineers.Write user-facing documentation to support new features with help from our technical writing staff.You’ll love this job if you
Are a product-minded software engineer. You regard Product and Design as your peers, and you seek collaboration to create innovative workflows.Want to delve deeper than the application layer to understand the systems and services powering the APIs that you are using.Want autonomy on task prioritization. You understand the challenge of shipping new features while maintaining existing functionality, and you have found the balance between them in previous roles.Operate with a high level of ownership over the outcomes of your work, and you expect the same from your team.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.Relish the idea of making small improvements to a tool that magnifies into days of saved time across our customer base.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
6+ years of experience building user-facing web applications and APIs.Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, or related field, and/or relevant experience.Strong experience with React/Typescript (or similar frameworks and languages).Working experience with Django/Python (or similar frameworks and languages).Hybrid work schedule for in-person collaboration on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. For roles considered remote, this will not apply.
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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. If you like to selfishly build things that make your digital life better, come help us build the next generation of software monitoring tools.About the role
Product Foundation consist of 2 main pods: Alerts & Notification, and Ecosystem. The Alerts & Notifications pod owns the core alerting functionality in Sentry. The Ecosystem pod owns connectors to other SaaS tools to send these alerts. The team focuses on projects that will embed Sentry tightly with our users’ workflows, and provide actionable insights on issues in their code so they can fix them. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the team.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 .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 ?).Write tests for your code to maintain a high code quality and raise the engineering standard for Sentry.Set up monitoring and alerting to ensure application health and uptime.Review code and mentor less-experienced engineers.Write user-facing documentation to support new features with help from our technical writing staff.You’ll love this job if you
Are a product-minded software engineer. You regard Product and Design as your peers, and you seek collaboration to create innovative workflows.Want to delve deeper than the application layer to understand the systems and services powering the APIs that you are using.Want autonomy on task prioritization. You understand the challenge of shipping new features while maintaining existing functionality, and you have found the balance between them in previous roles.Operate with a high level of ownership over the outcomes of your work, and you expect the same from your team.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.Relish the idea of making small improvements to a tool that magnifies into days of saved time across our customer base.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
6+ years of experience building user-facing web applications and APIs.Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, or related field, and/or relevant experience.Strong experience with React/Typescript (or similar frameworks and languages).Working experience with Django/Python (or similar frameworks and languages).Hybrid work schedule for in-person collaboration on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. For roles considered remote, this will not apply.
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