Senior Manager, Support Engineering

Sentry; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Sentry is hiring a Senior Manager to lead Support Engineering. You will run a hands-on leadership role, manage people, set the support strategy, and engage directly with customers when it matters.

You'll design coverage across time zones, build career paths for engineers, and own the team’s metrics and outcomes while guiding AI-assisted support initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead and scale a technical support team.
• Strong communication and coaching skills.
• Experience building support processes and metrics.
• Ability to design coverage models across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Support Engineering team.
• Set expectations for technical depth and ownership, provide feedback.
• Design and implement on-call and escalation paths across time zones.
• Develop career paths for engineers to advance technically or move into management.
• Own support outcomes and report core metrics (CX, time to resolution, escalations).
• Incorporate customer feedback to improve product, docs, or SDKs, beyond ticket responses.
• Oversee AI-assisted support and determine where automation adds value.
• Define roadmap for support agents, including request types and handoffs.
• Collaborate with Engineering to reproduce bugs and communicate impact to customers.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Strategic planning

Customer focus

Data-driven

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in support

Job description

About SentrySoftware runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

About the roleAt Sentry, Support is an engineering discipline. Our customers are developers, and they expect answers from people who can read their stack trace, open the SDK source, and tell them what's actually wrong.

We're hiring a Senior Manager to lead Support Engineering. You'll run the team that handles everything from a single developer's SDK question to a production incident at one of our largest enterprise customers. You'll also help drive how we use AI in support: what systems are used, how they best help customers, enable the teams, and how we know the answers they give are right and forward looking.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll manage people, set the support strategy, get face to face time with customers, while also getting into tickets when it matters.

In this role you will

• Lead and grow the team
• Manage and coach a team of Technical Support Engineers
• Set clear expectations for technical depth, response quality, and ownership, and give direct feedback
• Design a coverage model that works across time zones, including on-call and escalation paths
• Build career paths for Support Engineers who want to go deeper technically, move into management, or move into different teams and practices
• Own support outcomes
• Own and report the team's core metrics: CX, time to resolution, escalation rate, and more
• Use support conversations as a signal: find the top drivers of tickets and get them fixed in the product, the docs, internal operations, or the SDKs, not just answered faster
• Run AI-assisted support
• Own the roadmap for our support agents: which request types they handle, what context they need, and when they hand off to a person
• Set the quality bar for agent answers and the process for catching incomplete ones
• Decide where automation is worth building and where it isn't, based on data
• Handle escalations and partner across Sentry
• Run the escalation process with Engineering: make sure bugs reach the right team with a reproduction and clear impact, and that customers hear back
• Be the support lead on high-stakes enterprise issues, working with Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, and Sales
• Bring a clear picture of customer pain to Product and Engineering, backed by numbers

You’ll love this job if you

• Think great support is an engineering problem, not a staffing problem
• Want to build the team and the systems at the same time
• Can debug a tricky SDK issue yourself and also explain to a VP why their incident took four hours
• Would rather fix the cause of 200 tickets than answer them faster
• Have strong opinions on where AI helps in support and where it makes things worse, and be willing to discuss this at length.