Software developer Jobs in Oakland, CA

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 100,000+ 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

provides a suite of services to diagnose health problems in their customer's applications. These tools are mission-critical to companies who want to respond effectively in fast-paced markets. We make the development and deployment of these tools a safe and enjoyable experience, by maintaining a succinct and helpful continuous integration environment and an informative deployment pipeline.

As a member of the Developer Productivity Team, you will be responsible for the delivery process and the overall developer experience. You will be supporting a growing engineering team while balancing factors such as process stability, artifact veracity, human interaction time and communication methodologies. You will also be helping new engineers get to their first production deployment quickly and be well-informed enough to repeat the process.

If the idea of crafting tools for toolsmiths brings a smile to your face, this could be the job for you.

In this role you will

• Optimize the process of code delivery at Sentry ensuring that every engineer is delivering their best work quickly
• Learn from our retrospectives and create tooling and process change to help developers avoid outages in the future
• Develop deployment processes and tools to ensure our software gets to customers safely and efficiently
• Streamline the engineering onboarding process via automation, highlighting learning opportunities and an introduction to delivery at Sentry
• Measure key metrics of the delivery pipeline and respond to any major degradation of service

You’ll love this job if you

• Customize most of your tools for efficiency
• Believe in automating all the things
• Get excited by collaborating directly with your customers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar role
• Strong proficiency with Python
• Experience using Docker in production, continuous build environments, and developer laptops
• Experience with customizing development tools
• Strong written communication skills

The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $190,000 to $220,000. 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.

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