Senior Developer Experience Engineer

Sentry; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Paid time off

Group health insurance

Job summary

A software monitoring company in San Francisco seeks a Developer Experience professional to enhance developer documentation and engage with the community. The role involves managing the documentation platform, hosting events, and collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of development experience and a background in developer advocacy. A hybrid work model is encouraged, emphasizing collaboration and innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a developer and 3+ years in an advocacy or educational role.
• Examples of technical educational content aimed at professional developers.
• Active member of technical communities.

Responsibilities

• Manage the docs platform to define great developer documentation.
• Engage with the developer community through events and meetups.
• Gather insights from users and software development trends.

Skills

Developer advocacy

Technical content creation

Community engagement

Written communication

Verbal communication

Education

5+ years as a developer

3+ years in developer relations or similar role

Tools

Discord

Stack Overflow

Twitter

Job description

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.

About the role

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.

In this role you will..

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.

You’ll love this job if you

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.

Qualifications

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 a common modern development language or framework

You have been an active member and contributor of technical communities, on any platform (e.g. Discord, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Twitter, TikTok)

Ability to prioritize competing opportunities and balance customer needs versus business priorities

Stellar written and verbal communication skills

A down‑to‑earth attitude, a good amount of humility, and dry sense of humor are a huge plus

The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $150,000 to $190,000. 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.

Equal Opportunity at Sentry

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally‑protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open‑source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.