engineering
Posted Dec 9, 2025Senior Developer Experience Engineer
at Sentry
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Requirements
- We’re looking for a hands-on builder with strong opinions on great developer docs.
- Are you someone who loves tinkering with the newest features in your favorite products? Do you enjoy taking the next random JavaScript framework for a spin and figuring out how to make them tick? Does it especially irk you when the code snippets are wrong, or the only docs for a feature are on X? Developer
- Experience at Sentry lives in the intersection of shipping really cool products and getting developers set up to use them.
- Experience at Sentry is a team of builders who are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for every developer to use Sentry.
- 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.
- And you know how to build a community organically by lifting up and promoting others.
Experience
- 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.
Benefits
- 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.
- 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 USD.
- 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
Additional details
- 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.
- Sentry embraces a hybrid work model across our global hubs, 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.
- Experience team is growing in San Francisco! This is a hybrid-role out of our main headquarters and must be based there.
- 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.
- 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.