Senior Software Engineer (Python), Telemetry Experience

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 85,000 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. 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 Senior Software Engineer on the Telemetry Experience team in Vienna, Austria, you will join a cross-functional group of Software Engineers that is responsible for the client-facing operation of Sentry. This means you will be involved in the design and evolution of both external and internal services, as well as create new mission-critical software at Sentry.

The Telemetry Experience team is focused on building heuristics that help decide which events out of the billions we ingest are worth storing and which are ok to discard (Dynamic Sampling).

You will collaborate with other teams throughout the company to ensure that our customers can get to important, actionable data easier than before. Presenting new ideas to our technical steering committee, establishing ownership of a feature set and growing your technical skills are just a few of the activities you can expect from this role.

If you want to build and improve product features that empower software development teams to do their best work, all while writing open source code, this could be the role for you.

In this role you will:

• Help build A New Era of Sentry.

• Design and build intuitive and robust APIs used by frontend engineers and/or customers.

• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Operations teams to build solutions that scale (we process over a billion events every day).

• Work with product management and the larger engineering organization to define, implement and ship new features.

• Build tests for your code to maintain a high standard of quality for Sentry; as well as write documentation (with our technical writing staff) to help educate both peers and customers.

• Review code and mentor less-experienced engineers.

You’ll love this job if you:

• Take challenges that you don't see every day, daily.

• Care about writing highly performant, high-quality code.

• Want to build a product by developers for developers.

• Take pride in developing features that don't "just work," but are delightful to use.

• Get excited about joining a modern software development team that iterates and ships code rapidly.

• Want to contribute to open source full-time — our product is entirely Open Source.

• Enjoy working in an agile team of engineers who push themselves and others to do better.

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant experience.

• Experience in solving complex problems by developing high-quality, high-performance software.

• Experience in Python.

• Bonus points for experience with JavaScript or Rust.

• Excellent written and oral English communication skills and an ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and succinctly.

• Live in the Vienna, Austria area or are willing to relocate.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity

• Commuter subsidy

• Lunch reimbursement

• Learning & Development stipend and various other benefits

• Flexible working schedule

• Austrian healthcare

• Pet-friendly office

• Company events (Hack Weeks, All Hands) and visits to our SF headquarters

• Relocation assistance - you are living in, or willing to relocate to, Vienna, Austria area

Sentry values diversity and inclusivity in our company and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are obliged by law to quote the minimum wage of EUR 52,220,— gross per year for this position, in accordance with the respective collective agreement (IT-KV). The salary that Sentry offers you is adjusted to the current market situation and does significantly exceed it.