Staff Software Engineer

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 85,000 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.

In this role you will

• Drive the design and development of innovative software solutions for Sentry products
• Interpret and translate business requirements to technical requirements and provide accurate estimates
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and technical debt elimination by balancing time, resources, and quality constraints to achieve strategic goals and requirements
• Design, code, test, debug, and document new and existing components to ensure that Sentry’s software achieves business and operational objectives
• Apply knowledge of computer programming, application design, and application development to write open-source code, utilizing dynamic programming languages such as Python and Javascript
• Build high quality code following unit testing and test- driven development (TDD)
• Drive and participate in code and document review
• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and processes
• Build and implement high quality features and application architecture while enhancing user interface and experience
• Collaborate with infrastructure and operations teams to build solutions that scale
• Contribute to risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality and performance is achieved
• Implement the latest technologies and best practices in the field of open-source software development and engineering to enhance the ability of the product to assist software teams in discovering, triaging and resolving production software issues

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus five (5) years of software engineering, software development, or related experience, including three (3) years of experience: designing, implementing, and maintaining back-end features; developing framework to register data for easy retrieval and deletion; utilizing dynamic programming languages to write high performing code that deploy to production; making key architectural decisions to ensure high quality of the products; identifying and solving scaling challenges; directing server side engineering; designing and architecting features from design to release; improving and enhancing development and release processes; developing software as a services (SaaS) data models; and utilizing Python, Kafka, Storm, and Cassandra. 

In Lieu of Bachelor’s degree plus five (5) years of experience, will accept seven (7) years of software engineering, software development, or related experience, including three (3) years of the specific experience as specified above. Any suitable combination of education, training, or experience is acceptable as set forth above.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees, 75% company-paid for dependents
• Monthly commuter subsidy
• 401k program
• Learning & Development stipend
• Charitable matching program
• Generous parental leave policy
• Flexible working schedule and vacation policy, work from home policy, and real work/life balance
• Catered lunches
• Company events (Hack Weeks, All Hands, quarterly social events) and friends and family events
• Relocation assistance - you are living in, or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area

Telecommuting Permissible. COVID vaccine required – reasonable accommodations for medical or religious reasons considered.

Salary: $236,146.38/year.

Send resume to: Amra Khan, Manager, People Operations, Sentry, 45 Fremont Street, 8th Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94105 or e-mail immigration@sentry.io .

Sentry values diversity and inclusivity in our company and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.