Engineering Manager, Profiling

The Engineering Manager of the Profiling team at Sentry will lead a distributed team of engineers in building a profiling product that helps developers improve the performance of their code. This role involves setting technical direction, driving execution, collaborating with other teams, and actively contributing to software architecture and design discussions. The Engineering Manager will also engage with customers to understand their needs and foster a healthy and collaborative culture. The ideal candidate is passionate about performance monitoring, experienced in guiding teams, thrives in cross-functional environments, and has an eye for good product design and usability.

Grow and develop a distributed team of talented and motivated engineers with high expectations around individual ownership and impact

Set technical direction for the team, anticipating strategic and scaling-related challenges

Drive execution by determining the shortest path to our goals, removing blockers for your team, and delivering value to our customers at a rapid pace

Collaborate with the product management function to develop a long term roadmap based on both strong personal intuition and internal/external feedback

Actively contribute to software architecture and design discussions

Talk to Sentry’s customers to understand how they use our product and how we can alleviate their pain points

Foster a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies our values

Are passionate about the performance monitoring product space and have strong opinions on how these tools can help developers build better software

Enjoy guiding a highly experienced team of engineers to realize their fullest potential

Thrive in cross-functional environments, collaborating with individuals across many disciplines to deliver the best solutions possible

Have an eye for good product design and usability

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer and 3+ years experience managing a fully or partially distributed engineering team
• Experience using profiling and performance monitoring tools to optimize software (must-have), and preferably have experience building such tools
• Familiarity with C, C++, Rust, Go, or other systems programming languages
• Familiarity with architectural patterns for building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Experience with scoping work, performing resource allocation, and establishing engineering milestones and delivery dates
• Experience growing technical teams through direct hiring and a strong sense of how to optimize a growing technical team for success
• A strong understanding of lean product development; you validate ideas quickly and adjust as you learn
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and an ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and succinctly

• Base salary range of $130,000 to $270,000
• Eligibility to participate in Sentry's employee benefit plans/programs
• Incentive compensation
• Equity grants
• Paid time off
• Group health insurance coverage
• Equal employment opportunities 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
• Provision of reasonable accommodations for employees and candidates with physical or mental disabilities
• Inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive
• Open-source company with a belief in making software accessible
• Assistance or accommodation for disabilities available upon request