Senior Technical Support Engineer at Sentry

San Francisco, California, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Technology, SoftwareIndustries

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in technical customer support or similar roles in software/SaaS, with direct responsibility for troubleshooting, product guidance, and ensuring customer success
  • Experience with Python and/or JavaScript, or other dynamic programming languages (e.g., Ruby, PHP). Exposure to additional paradigms such as strongly typed or compiled languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++) is a plus
  • Strong understanding of modern software development practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, APIs, microservices, front-end vs. back-end development, observability, debugging, performance monitoring)
  • Demonstrated coding experience through internships, personal projects (GitHub), or coding competitions
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Coding background and passion for engaging customers
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with strong time-management skills and collaboration abilities
  • Bonus: Open Source contributions
  • Bonus: Prior experience working as a software developer

Responsibilities

  • Become a Sentry product expert
  • Answer inbound Support requests about Sentry's product and usage of its SDKs
  • Contribute to community and social support channels
  • Triage, reproduce, and report product bugs, as well as monitor escalations to engineering
  • Manage and curate customer feedback in open source repos
  • Contribute to team-wide goals and initiatives, including support knowledge base documentation, internal guides, and demos
  • Provide real-time support to customers via chat, email, and video calls during business hours
  • Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours, holiday, and weekend support coverage

Skills

Sentry
SDK
GitHub
Discord
Customer Support
Troubleshooting
Technical Writing
Error Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
Product Expertise

Sentry

Full-stack application monitoring and observability

About Sentry

Sentry offers full-stack application monitoring and observability, providing deep context, session replay, and distributed tracing to identify errors and performance bottlenecks across frontend and backend technologies, supporting JavaScript, Python, PHP, and more.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2011Year Founded
$210.6MTotal Funding
SERIES_ECompany Stage
Consumer Software, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Competitive Compensation + Equity
401(k) Plan
Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
Commuter Stipend
Professional Development Stipend
Health & Wellness Benefits
Charitable Matching Program
Flexible PTO
Paid Parental Leave

Risks

Competition from AI-powered tools like Devnaut may impact Sentry's market share.
The Functional Source License might deter developers preferring permissive open-source licenses.
Expanded integrations in Google's Gemini 2.0 could increase competition in error tracking.

Differentiation

Sentry offers real-time error tracking across the entire software stack.
The Functional Source License protects Sentry's commercial interests while supporting open-source collaboration.
Sentry's integration with Google's Gemini 2.0 enhances its visibility among developers.

Upsides

Integration with AI tools like Devnaut boosts Sentry's codebase visibility and productivity.
Sentry's focus on mobile performance monitoring aligns with growing demand in mobile solutions.
Winning the 2023 Digital Innovator Award highlights Sentry's leadership in digital transformation.

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