Senior Developer Experience Engineer

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Manage the docs platform, with freedom to shape it how you see fit, to answer the age old question of "what does great developer documentation look like"
• Attend and even host events and meetups in the developer community
• Have a point of view and aren't shy about expressing it. You get your energy from both knowing the latest trends and having a POV on which ones to ignore
• Engage with the challenges facing technical communities, to support developers, gather feedback, and help our product and engineering teams ship new capabilities
• Propose the product solutions, identify the content and/or execution plans and people to partner with, and go execute
• Manage the docs platform, with freedom to shape it how you see fit, to answer the age old question of "what does great developer documentation look like"
• Attend and even host events and meetups in the developer community
• Have a point of view and aren't shy about expressing it. You get your energy from both knowing the latest trends and having a POV on which ones to ignore
• Engage with the challenges facing technical communities, to support developers, gather feedback, and help our product and engineering teams ship new capabilities
• Propose the product solutions, identify the content and/or execution plans and people to partner with, and go execute

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• Be an active member and contributor of technical communities, on any platform (e.g. Discord, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Twitter, TikTok)
• Able 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

Qualifications

• Base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $150,000 to $190,000 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)

Benefits

• Sentry Benefits for more details about the Company’s benefit plans/programs

Equal Opportunity

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.

Contact

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