Senior Developer Relations Advocate

About Sentry

Bad software is everywhere and were 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 100000 organizations that believe were on to something were building performance and error monitoring tools that help companies like Disney Microsoft and Atlassian spend less time fixing bugs and more time building products.

Sentry embraces a hybrid work model with Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays set as inoffice anchor days to encourage meaningful collaboration. 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

Are you someone who loves tinkering with the newest features in your favorite products Do you enjoy taking the next random JavaScript framework for a spin and figuring out how to make it tick Do you get just as excited teaching people how to do the thing as you get about doing it yourself Developer Experience at Sentry lives in the intersection of shipping really cool products and getting developers set up to use them.

If youre someone who is confident in partnering with Product and Engineering to test and ship the latest features not afraid to jump in with Sales solve problems for our biggest (and smallest) customers and excited to help our Marketing teams to extend authentic technical content across multiple mediums and communities this is the job for you.

In Dev Experience at Sentry we engage with the challenges facing technical communities to support developers and provide feedback to the engineering and product teams.

A senior advocate in this role should be confident to come with an answer create content and/or plans and go execute.

In this role you will

• Build content experiences and demos that speed up the time to Whoa thats pretty cool! for Sentry users.
• Have a point of view and arent shy about expressing it. You get your energy from both knowing the latest trends and having a POV on which ones to ignore. Whos working on something interesting who influences the conversation and whos going to help drive the conversation forward while linking all this back to the core problems that Sentry is solving.
• Have an ear to the street. You get excited about consolidating insights from gaps in the developer product world cool or interesting marketing topics and provide useful insights to shape our product and marketing direction.
• Get how to draw concentric circles around the topics that are most relevant to the core customers problems and where they intersect with Sentrys world including: product experience codelevel observability and connecting the dots between errors performance and metrics.
• Ride shotgun with Engineering Product Design Sales engineering Business Ops and nearly every function in Marketing from Comms to Product Marketing to develop the best content and great product narratives.

Youll love this job if you

• Are someone who loves taking new features for a spin learning how they tick and testing them against your own projects.
• Are an educator a builder and a human router. And you know that the best way to get people excited about your product is to show not sell through cool concepts useful technical tutorials and by bringing brilliant people together.
• Are a prolific (and good) writer who understands how to tell a useful and relevant story in 30 words as well as weave together questions to panelists for 30 minutes.
• Get excited when you hear that your job is to do of each: Educating through useful and timely content building community through live and virtual gatherings Being customertoproduct influence.
• Listen as much as you talk. And you know how to build a community organically by lifting up and promoting others that you can spot as subjectmatter experts or organizations that we want to be associated with supporting.

Qualifications

• 5 years as a developer and 3 years in an advocacy or educational role such as developer relations/evangelism creating technical content leading a community of developers via forums or events.
• You have 3 examples of technical educational content aimed for professional developers (e.g. tutorial video series blog series course).
• At least one example of your own dedicated blogs forum or sites with a developerfocused audience and can speak to how you measured success and what promotional mechanisms you used to drive top of funnel visibility.
• At least one project using a common modern development language or framework.
• Have a proven track record in understanding ROI reporting and analytics including understanding metrics for community engagement.
• You have been an active member and contributor of technical communities on any platform (e.g. Discord Stack Overflow Reddit Twitter TikTok).
• Ability to prioritize competing opportunities and balance customer needs versus business priorities.
• Stellar written and verbal communication skills.
• A downtoearth attitude and dry sense of humor are a huge plus.

The base salary range (or hourly wage range if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $150000 to $190000. A successful candidates actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including without limitation the candidates work location education work and other relevant experience skills and jobrelated knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentrys employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidates position (including incentive compensation equity grants paid time off and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Companys 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 legallyprotected 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 opensource 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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