Hiring: Senior Developer Experience Engineer Company: Sentry Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:56:34 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : JavaScript, Sentry About the job Experience: •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 Required Skills: •The Developer Experience team is growing in San Francisco! This is a hybrid role out of our main headquarters and must be based there. We’re looking for a hands-on builder with strong opinions on great developer docs. •If you’re someone who is confident in partnering with Product and Engineering to test and ship the latest features, not afraid to jump in and go hands-on to solve problems for our biggest customers, and a good eye for what good docs looks like - this is a dream role. •Developer Experience at Sentry is a team of builders who are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for every developer to use Sentry. 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. •In this role you will •Attend and even host events and meetups in the developer community •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. Qualifications: •You have 3+ examples of technical educational content aimed for professional developers (e.g. tutorial, video series, blog series, course) •At least one example of your own dedicated blogs, forum or sites with a developer-focused audience and can speak to how you measured success and what promotional mechanisms you used to drive top of funnel visibility •At least one project using a common modern development language or framework •You have been an active member and contributor of technical communities, on any platform (e.g. Discord, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Twitter, TikTok) •Demonstrated capacity 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 Compensation: •$150,000 - $190,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!