Web Platform SDK Engineer

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 $127 million in funding and 80,000 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 Web Platform SDK Engineer on our client infrastructure team, you’ll join a cross-functional group of Software Engineers that are responsible for the client-facing operation of Sentry. This includes building and maintaining our web SDKs that are used to send events to the Sentry backend. You will join our team that is responsible not just for the client SDKs work but also the main event processing pipeline. This means you will also be involved in the design and evolution of the APIs used to ingest events into the backend.

In this role you will:

• Work in the client infrastructure team to improve and evolve our web SDKs
• Use a variety of programming languages, systems, and technologies to own and solve problems related to web (Python, TypeScript)
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Operations teams to build solutions that scale (we ingest over a billion events every day)
• Write unit and integration tests that ensure the correctness of your work, as well as strong documentation to help educate both peers and customers
• Assist Customer Operations to resolve live customer issues when bugs sneak into production caused by the SDKs

You’ll love this job if:

• You take pride in building features that don’t just work, but are also delightful to use
• You build a product by developers for developers
• You join a modern software development team that iterates and ships code rapidly
• You contribute to open source full-time — our product is entirely Open Source
• You work with collaborative, thoughtful engineers who push themselves and others to do better

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a Software Engineer and/or related role (e.g. web developer, SDK engineer)
• Experience in developing web application / SDKs
• Experience in programming languages used in web applications (Python, Typescript, Ruby, PHP, Go, etc.)
• Bonus points for experience with Java, .NET, or experience maintaining open-source libraries
• Good written and spoken English communication skills
• Live in the Vienna, Austria area or are willing to relocate

Benefits

• Contribute to an open-source product used by almost a million of your fellow developers and tens of thousands of companies
• Be part of an experienced and renowned team that cares a lot about diversity, inclusivity, and quirkiness
• 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 50,652- 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.