Senior Solutions Engineer

Sentry
San Francisco, CA
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Aimed at experienced technical professionals who can bridge software engineering and customer success, with a focus on cross-functional collaboration and a preference for San Francisco-based work arrangements.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a blend of software engineering and customer-facing experience in performance monitoring and error management
    — “8+ years of experience, with some mixture being Software Engineering and Solutions Engineering/Implementation
  • Professionals who enjoy working with diverse industries and complex technical challenges
    — “working in a dynamic environment, on a variety of projects with customers from lots of different industries

Things to consider

  • The role requires a high level of technical and communication proficiency, with no room for ambiguity
    — “Possess excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Candidates must be prepared to contribute to the product roadmap through internal feedback loops
    — “Work cross-functionally (internally) to provide feedback to the product and development teams

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to translate customer needs into technical implementation strategies
    — “Understand customers' pain points and objectives and translate those into implementation and onboarding plans
  • Showcase your experience in creating technical content such as scripts, demos, or code samples
    — “Love flexing your creative brain by developing solutions, resources, and content from scratch
  • Emphasize your hands-on experience with multiple programming languages and frameworks
    — “Hands-on experience working with programming languages and frameworks including JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Java, PHP, .NET, Ruby, React, React Native, Mobile Native (iOS and/or Android), etc.
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Developed implementation and onboarding plans
  • Provided feedback to product and development teams
Typical background
Software EngineeringSolutions Engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

JavaScriptPythonNode.jsJavaPHPRubyReactReact NativeMobile NativeSDK IntegrationTechnical Project Delivery

Preferred

Content DevelopmentEducational Offerings

Stack & domain

JavaScriptPythonNode.jsJavaPHPReactReact NativeMobile NativeIosAndroidCommunicationPresentationProblem-solvingCreativityTeamworkError ManagementPerformance ManagementOpen-sourceDeveloper ToolsSoftware Development Lifecycle

About the role

Original posting from Sentry via Ashby

ABOUT SENTRY

Software 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 ROLE:

The Solutions Engineering team at Sentry is responsible for helping our largest customers successfully embed Sentry into their applications and workflows, from integrating our SDK to making sure alerts and issues make it to the right place at the right time. Solutions Engineers will be interfacing with customers to ensure optimal implementation and utilization ensuring that:

  • Developers can effectively identify and resolve slowdowns and errors in their applications.
  • Development teams increase developer productivity and customer satisfaction.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

  • Understand customers' pain points and objectives and translate those into implementation and onboarding plans to meet those objectives and demonstrate business value.
  • Develop best practices, educational offerings, and content around error and performance management, open-source, or the Sentry product (ex: “how-to” articles and/or videos on specific functionality of the product).
  • Act as a trusted advisor and subject-matter expert for customers to assist with instrumenting software engineering and monitoring best practices
  • Provide workshop-level interaction to customers in order to drive the maturity of use and broader adoption.
  • Work cross-functionally (internally) to provide feedback to the product and development teams and align Sentry's product roadmap with improving time to value-delivered.

YOU’LL LOVE THIS JOB IF YOU

  • Enjoy talking about technology and interfacing with engineers and engineering leaders.
  • Appreciate working in a dynamic environment, on a variety of projects with customers from lots of different industries.
  • Love flexing your creative brain by developing solutions, resources, and content from scratch (scripts, code samples, demos, sales-consumable collateral/documents, etc.).
  • Have a fast-paced, results-driven mindset.
  • Love developer tools, open-source, and/or all things software development life cycle!

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 8+ years of experience, with some mixture being Software Engineering and Solutions Engineering/Implementation
  • Hands-on experience working with programming languages and frameworks including JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Java, PHP, .NET, Ruby, React, React Native, Mobile Native (iOS and/or Android), etc.
  • Possess excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Problem solver, knowledgable, and can-doer

The salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $200,000 to $240,000 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 Benefits https://sentry.io/careers/ 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.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@sentry.io.

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Source: Sentry careers (Ashby)

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