Solutions Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Solutions & Sales Engineering role at Sentry. San Francisco · full-time · $140,000–$160,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Turn customer goals and pain points into onboarding and implementation plans that show business value
- Create best practices, workshops, how-to materials, videos, scripts, code samples, and demos
- Guide customers on software instrumentation, engineering practices, and monitoring workflows
- Help engineering teams expand their use of the product through workshop-style customer engagement
- Share customer feedback internally to help product and development teams improve time to value
What you bring
- At least three years in solutions engineering, implementation consulting, support engineering, or software development
- Project leadership or customer-facing experience alongside hands-on programming with listed languages and frameworks
- Strong communication and presentation abilities for discussions with engineers and engineering leaders
- A practical problem-solving approach and working knowledge of developer tools, open-source, or software development life cycles
Who this fits
You’ll suit this role if you enjoy explaining technology to engineers, building resources from scratch, and handling varied customer projects. The job is hybrid in San Francisco and centers on customer interaction, workshops, implementation, and onboarding. The stated base salary range is $140,000 to $190,000 USD per year.
From the employer
About Sentry
Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building.
Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.
About the role:
The Solutions Engineering team at Sentry is responsible for helping our largest customers successfully embed Sentry into their applications and workflows, from integrating our SDK to making sure alerts and issues make it to the right place at the right time. Solutions Engineers will be interfacing with customers to ensure optimal implementation and utilization ensuring that:
Developers can effectively identify and resolve slowdowns and errors in their applications.
Development teams increase developer productivity and customer satisfaction.
In this role you will
Understand customers' pain points and objectives and translate those into implementation and onboarding plans to meet those objectives and demonstrate business value.
Develop best practices, educational offerings, and content around error and performance management, open-source, or the Sentry product (ex: “how-to” articles and/or videos on specific functionality of the product).
Act as a trusted advisor and subject-matter expert for customers to assist with instrumenting software engineering and monitoring best practices
Provide workshop-level interaction to customers in order to drive the maturity of use and broader adoption.
Work cross-functionally (internally) to provide feedback to the product and development teams and align Sentry's product roadmap with improving time to value-delivered.
You’ll love this job if you
Enjoy talking about technology and interfacing with engineers and engineering leaders.
Appreciate working in a dynamic environment, on a variety of projects with customers from lots of different industries.
Love flexing your creative brain by developing solutions, resources, and content from scratch (scripts, code samples, demos, sales-consumable collateral/documents, etc.).
Have a fast-paced, results-driven mindset.
Love developer tools, open-source, and/or all things software development life cycle!
Qualifications
3+ years as a Solutions Engineer (preferred), Implementation Consultant, Support Engineer, or Software Developer with experience leading projects and/or working with customers.
Please note- we're hiring a variety of levels so if you are interested but have less or more experience- please still apply!
Hands-on experience working with programming languages and frameworks including JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Java, PHP, .NET, Ruby, React, React Native, Mobile Native (iOS and/or Android), etc.
Possess excellent communication and presentation skills.
Problem solver, knowledgable, and can-doer
The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $140,000 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). 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.
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