Senior Design Engineer, Performance
Top Benefits
About the role
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 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.
Sentry embraces a hybrid work model, 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.
About The Role As a member of the Performance Team at Sentry, you’ll join the group responsible for the continued growth of Sentry’s core tracing, debugging and application performance experience. The Performance team is focused on providing powerful views into tracing and performance telemetry with the goal of giving users a clear debugging workflow from problem identification through to remediation.
A Design Engineer on the Performance Team merges strong technical engineering skills with an eye for the beautiful, and an intuition for pleasant user experiences. You’ll collaborate with other designers, engineers and product folks to design and implement compelling user experiences within Sentry.
In this role you will
- Develop an understanding of the entire Sentry product and contribute to changes across the codebase
- Work closely with Product Management, Design and Engineering Leadership to design, implement and ship new features, with a focus on creating beautiful, intuitive and performant user experiences
- Raise technical and design expertise within the organization through collaboration, mentorship, pairing and design reviews
- Build and maintain features and reusable components for Explore, Trace View, Insights, Dashboards and adjacent product areas using Python, React, and TypeScript
You’ll love this job if you
- Aim to create the most effective, enjoyable and visually pleasing experiences within an application and are able to see ideas from concept through to production implementation
- Are product-minded, regarding Product and Design as your peers, and you seek collaboration to iterate and improve on your work
- Enjoy bringing a deep technical understanding to design challenges, fine-tuning until the end result is visually pleasing and provides simple and effective workflows for users
- Are highly detail oriented but know how to make pragmatic tradeoffs to deliver impact quickly
- Are excited to leverage your diverse skillset and dive into a variety of product areas to improve existing workflows, earning the trust and recognition of your peers
- Care deeply about web application performance, design and accessibility
- Love to collaborate with peers, driving for alignment and leading initiatives that may span multiple teams
Qualifications
- 4+ years professional UX, interaction, or visual design, and engineering experience
- 6+ years professional engineering experience
- 6+ years of experience working with JavaScript/TypeScript and React, or similar frameworks
- Experience designing, implementing and refining enjoyable user experiences within complex application workflows
- Experience mentoring and collaborating with other engineers on large, impactful projects
- Experience with Python and Django, or similar is an asset
The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $206,000 to $288,000 CAD. 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 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.
Want to learn more about how Sentry handles applicant data? Get the details in our Applicant Privacy Policy.
About Sentry
Your business. Your employees. Your peace of mind. At Sentry, we understand what matters most to you. Because we've spent the last 120 years building trust with our customers—one conversation at a time. We got our start in 1904, when members of the Wisconsin Retail Hardware Association formed their own insurance company. Our dedication to personalized service—and to honoring our Midwestern roots—has helped make Sentry part of one of the largest and most financially secure mutual insurance groups in the United States. Our customers work in a wide range of industries, including transportation, manufacturing, metalworking, construction, auto dealerships, and more. Many of them have been with us for decades. From 401(k) plans and general liability, to commercial property and workers’ compensation, we offer solutions that can help protect your business and your employees. We are headquartered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and have offices located across the United States. With more than $25 billion in assets, an $8 billion* policyholder surplus, and an A+ (superior) rating from AM Best,** the industry’s leading rating authority, we can help provide you peace of mind. To learn more about us, the industries we serve, and the products we offer, visit sentry.com. The content provided here is for informational purposes only: https://www.sentry.com/footer/legal-disclaimer. *Assets and policyholder surplus are as of December 31, 2023, and represent the aggregate total for all members of the Sentry Insurance Group and are not reflective of any individual underwriting company. https://www.sentry.com/-/media/sentry-insurance/home/about-us/annual-report-2023/2023-sentry-year-in-review.ashx **Sentry has an AM Best Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A+ (superior), current as of June 2024. For details about AM Best’s rating scale, see ambest.com/ratings/guide.pdf.
Senior Design Engineer, Performance
Top Benefits
About the role
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 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.
Sentry embraces a hybrid work model, 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.
About The Role As a member of the Performance Team at Sentry, you’ll join the group responsible for the continued growth of Sentry’s core tracing, debugging and application performance experience. The Performance team is focused on providing powerful views into tracing and performance telemetry with the goal of giving users a clear debugging workflow from problem identification through to remediation.
A Design Engineer on the Performance Team merges strong technical engineering skills with an eye for the beautiful, and an intuition for pleasant user experiences. You’ll collaborate with other designers, engineers and product folks to design and implement compelling user experiences within Sentry.
In this role you will
- Develop an understanding of the entire Sentry product and contribute to changes across the codebase
- Work closely with Product Management, Design and Engineering Leadership to design, implement and ship new features, with a focus on creating beautiful, intuitive and performant user experiences
- Raise technical and design expertise within the organization through collaboration, mentorship, pairing and design reviews
- Build and maintain features and reusable components for Explore, Trace View, Insights, Dashboards and adjacent product areas using Python, React, and TypeScript
You’ll love this job if you
- Aim to create the most effective, enjoyable and visually pleasing experiences within an application and are able to see ideas from concept through to production implementation
- Are product-minded, regarding Product and Design as your peers, and you seek collaboration to iterate and improve on your work
- Enjoy bringing a deep technical understanding to design challenges, fine-tuning until the end result is visually pleasing and provides simple and effective workflows for users
- Are highly detail oriented but know how to make pragmatic tradeoffs to deliver impact quickly
- Are excited to leverage your diverse skillset and dive into a variety of product areas to improve existing workflows, earning the trust and recognition of your peers
- Care deeply about web application performance, design and accessibility
- Love to collaborate with peers, driving for alignment and leading initiatives that may span multiple teams
Qualifications
- 4+ years professional UX, interaction, or visual design, and engineering experience
- 6+ years professional engineering experience
- 6+ years of experience working with JavaScript/TypeScript and React, or similar frameworks
- Experience designing, implementing and refining enjoyable user experiences within complex application workflows
- Experience mentoring and collaborating with other engineers on large, impactful projects
- Experience with Python and Django, or similar is an asset
The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $206,000 to $288,000 CAD. 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 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.
Want to learn more about how Sentry handles applicant data? Get the details in our Applicant Privacy Policy.
About Sentry
Your business. Your employees. Your peace of mind. At Sentry, we understand what matters most to you. Because we've spent the last 120 years building trust with our customers—one conversation at a time. We got our start in 1904, when members of the Wisconsin Retail Hardware Association formed their own insurance company. Our dedication to personalized service—and to honoring our Midwestern roots—has helped make Sentry part of one of the largest and most financially secure mutual insurance groups in the United States. Our customers work in a wide range of industries, including transportation, manufacturing, metalworking, construction, auto dealerships, and more. Many of them have been with us for decades. From 401(k) plans and general liability, to commercial property and workers’ compensation, we offer solutions that can help protect your business and your employees. We are headquartered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and have offices located across the United States. With more than $25 billion in assets, an $8 billion* policyholder surplus, and an A+ (superior) rating from AM Best,** the industry’s leading rating authority, we can help provide you peace of mind. To learn more about us, the industries we serve, and the products we offer, visit sentry.com. The content provided here is for informational purposes only: https://www.sentry.com/footer/legal-disclaimer. *Assets and policyholder surplus are as of December 31, 2023, and represent the aggregate total for all members of the Sentry Insurance Group and are not reflective of any individual underwriting company. https://www.sentry.com/-/media/sentry-insurance/home/about-us/annual-report-2023/2023-sentry-year-in-review.ashx **Sentry has an AM Best Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A+ (superior), current as of June 2024. For details about AM Best’s rating scale, see ambest.com/ratings/guide.pdf.