Design Engineering Lead, Design Systems & UI Infrastructure

Sentry; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter Stipend

Professional Development Stipend

Charitable Matching Program

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Sentry is seeking a Manager, Design Engineering to lead the team behind Scraps, our design system. You will manage designers and front-end engineers, set the system direction, and align design and code from Figma to production.

You’ll pair hands-on component work with people leadership, drive a strategic roadmap, and foster adoption across product teams through documentation and tooling. This role sits at the intersection of design, engineering, and AI tooling.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a full-time design system or design engineering team.
• 2+ years of people management experience.
• Strong visual and interaction design skills with a sharp eye for spacing, hierarchy, and micro-interactions.
• Deep fluency in React, TypeScript, CSS, and the DOM.
• Familiarity with Figma's design systems tooling — components, variants, variables, auto layout, shared libraries, and branching workflows.
• Able to balance long-term system thinking with the practical needs of product teams shipping on tight timelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of engineers and designers — hiring, leveling, and coaching across both crafts
• Own the strategic roadmap for the team: what components to prioritize, what tools to adopt, which parts of the web app to refactor, etc.
• Help maintain the UI quality and expression that Sentry is known for
• Keep design and code in sync — tokens, variables, component parity, and the pipeline from Figma to production
• Stay hands-on building components and the infrastructure to enable fast, accurate agentic front-end development and prototyping
• Drive adoption across product teams through documentation, lint rules, and contribution workflows that don't slow anyone down

Skills

Design systems

React

TypeScript

CSS

Figma

Tools

Figma

Job description

Sentry is seeking a Manager, Design Engineering to lead the team behind Scraps, our design system. You will manage designers and front-end engineers, set the system direction, and align design and code from Figma to production.

You’ll pair hands-on component work with people leadership, drive a strategic roadmap, and foster adoption across product teams through documentation and tooling. This role sits at the intersection of design, engineering, and AI tooling.