About the role
At Sentry, our customers are software developers - solving their problems is often complex and challenging, and may demand both a technical background and a solid knowledge of our product. Sentry’s engineers and product managers are always active on open-source channels such as GitHub and Discord, engaging in real conversations to make Sentry even better than it already is - Sentry Support Engineers are expected to be able engage with our SaaS users in these channels and Zendesk to help solve our customer’s problems and guide folks toward optimal usage.
We're looking for someone with a coding background who is passionate about engaging your customers and ensuring they have a great experience. You will be responsible for not only helping customers with their issues, but also writing knowledge base articles and crafting internal guides and demos to streamline our overall support team experience. You will drive success at Sentry by helping us reduce response times, help us scale our support needs, and ultimately make our customers happy.
In this role you will
- Become a Sentry product expert
- Answer inbound Support requests about Sentry's product and usage of our SDK's
- Triage, reproduce and and report product bugs as well monitor as escalations to engineering
- Manage and curate customer feedback in our open source repos
- Contribute to team wide goals and initiatives and support knowledge base documentation internal guides and demos
You’ll love this job if you
- Believe that things should "just work" (and you're a natural tinkerer who wants to make that happen for our customers!)
- Are driven by the joy customers get from using your products
- Have passion for developer tools or open source
- Are Results-driven and self-motivated: no one needs to push you to excel; it’s just who you are
- Eager to learn, adapt and grow your understanding of software engineering fundamentals; you seek apply your knowledge by helping those around you
- Are comfortable in a fast-paced environment that requires strong time-management skills and collaboration with our technical and business teams
Qualifications
- 5+ prior experience in Customer Support or equivalent history of roles responsible for customer happiness
- Experience with Python and/or Javascript, or similar dynamic programming languages (e.g. Ruby, PHP, etc), writing or shipping software as part of internships, personal projects (Github), or coding competitions
- Strong understanding of modern software development practices and tools (e.g. CI/CD, API’s, microservices, front-end vs. back-end development, observability, debugging, performance monitoring)
- Experience writing code and/or debugging code as well as a love of developer tooling and the software development life cycle
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- In San Francisco or willing to relocate
- Bonus:Open Source contributions
The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $85,000 to $95,000. 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.
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