Software Engineer (React), Web SDK

About the role

As an engineer on our Web Frontend team, you'll join a cross-functional division of software engineers who are responsible for the client-infrastructure operations of Sentry.

One part of this role will be building and maintaining our JavaScript SDKs that are used to send events to the Sentry backend. You will also be involved in the design and evolution of the APIs used to ingest events into the backend.

The second part of your role will be further developing our docs platform (a Next.js application running on https://docs.sentry.io/). You’ll be responsible for the application architecture and the development of further React components. This will also be your main focus for the first 6 months.

In this role you will

• Work on our Next.js docs platform, where you’ll build and maintain React components and optimize the applications’ build process
• Work together with your team to improve and evolve our JavaScript SDKs
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and SRE 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
• Want to build a product by developers for developers
• Want to work on multiple of the most important projects of Sentry
• Want to join a modern software development team that iterates and ships code rapidly
• Get excited about contributing to open source full-time — our product is entirely Open Source
• Enjoy working with collaborative, thoughtful engineers who push themselves and others to do better
• Love to interact with your user base - whether it be on GitHub or in-person at conferences

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a Software Engineer and/or related role (e.g. web developer, SDK engineer)
• Experience with Next.js, Vercel and GitHub Actions
• Experience in developing React applications / JavaScript libraries / SDKs in general
• Experience in programming languages used in web applications (Javascript, Typescript, Node, etc)
• Good written and spoken English communication skills
• Live in the Vienna, Austria area or are willing to relocate
• Bonus points for
  • experience with other programming languages
  • experience maintaining open-source libraries
• Please note the following:
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this position
  • This is a full-time position

We are obliged by law to quote the minimum wage of EUR 53,592,-- 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 our starting point is EUR 75,000-- gross per year.

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.