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title: 'Sales Engineer at Sentry'
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# Sales Engineer at Sentry

- **Company:** Sentry
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentry/6ce36964-7052-4c18-9497-68dd42c29cba

## Job description

## About Sentry

Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.

## About the role

Sentry's European Sales Engineering team is an established and growing team, expanding to keep pace with rising demand across the region. As a member of the team, you will be a crucial lever in helping our customers realize value from Sentry products. From providing technical demonstrations to advising customers on implementation best practices, you're all-in to make the customer wildly successful. Please note that this is a 12 month fixed-term contract.

In this role you will You'll partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Product to guide customers from first technical touchpoint through to long-term adoption. Day to day, that looks like:

- Bring technical expertise to customer demos, trials, implementations, and tickets
- Develop best practices, educational offerings, and content around error and performance management, open-source, or the Sentry product (ex: "how-to" articles and/or videos on specific functionality of the product)
- Provide workshop-level interaction to customers in order to drive maturity of use and broader adoption
- Work across the organization with marketing, engineering, customer success, support and product teams to represent the customer's voice and drive improvements in the product
- Attend conferences on occasion, speaking with prospects that visit our booth

You'll love this job if you

- Enjoy talking about technology and interfacing with engineers and engineering leaders
- Appreciate working on a variety of projects with customers from lots of different industries
- Love flexing your creative brain by developing resources and content from scratch (code samples, demos, sales-consumable collateral/documents, etc.)
- Like being "in the middle of it all," working across the organization to move the product forward
- Love developer tools, open-source, and/or all things software development life cycle

## Qualifications

- 3+ years as a Sales Engineer (preferred), Implementation Consultant, Support Engineer, or Software Developer with experience leading projects, presenting solutions, and/or working with customers
- Hands-on experience working with programming languages including JavaScript, Java, Swift/Cocoa, Python, Go, .NET, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, etc.
- Understanding of sales processes in a high transaction sales environment
- Experience selling and working with pure SaaS solutions (experience selling/implementing infrastructure tools is a plus) and proven track record of success driving revenue through technical interactions with prospects
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Experience with performance monitoring, Open Telemetry and code instrumentation desired but not required
- Experience developing mobile apps with native (iOS, Android) or multi-platform (React Native, Flutter) is a plus
- BS Degree in Engineering (preferably Computer Science/Engineering) is a plus

This is a 12-month fixed-term role designed for impact; high performers may have the opportunity to convert to a permanent position as the team continues to grow.

The base salary range that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is €91,000 to €124,000 + a 80/20 variable. This is a multi-level role and compensation will be determined based on experience and leveling. 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](https://sentry.io/careers/) 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. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@sentry.io. Want to learn more about how Sentry handles applicant data? Get the details in our [Applicant Privacy Policy](https://sentry.io/careers/applicantprivacy/).

## About Sentry

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sentry is the leading application performance monitoring and error-tracking platform that helps developers diagnose, fix, and optimize code in real-time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: David Cramer, Chris Jennings

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Error Tracking Software
- **Target customers**: B2B; developers and engineering teams at organizations of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises (200K+ organizations)
- **Mission or purpose**: To give every developer the tools to build better software, faster, by making debugging and performance monitoring accessible and indispensable.

## Products & Services
- **Sentry Error Tracking**: The core product — real-time error monitoring that captures, aggregates, and surfaces software bugs across 100+ coding languages and frameworks. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Sentry Performance Monitoring**: Traces slow transactions, API calls, and database queries to help developers optimize application speed and reliability. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Sentry Session Replay**: Video-like replays of user sessions to see exactly what happened before, during, and after an error. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Sentry Profiling**: Continuous code profiling to identify performance bottlenecks at the function level. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Sentry Crash Reporting (Cocoa/Android)**: Native SDKs for mobile error tracking and performance monitoring. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Seer (AI Debugging Agent)**: An AI-powered tool that uses Sentry context (logs, commits, traces) to automatically root-cause issues and generate merge-ready patches. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Sentry MCP Server**: Integrates with coding agents to bring full debugging context directly into the developer's workflow. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last known funding round was $217M total raised)
- **Key Metric**: $217M total funding raised across 6 rounds; processes 190B+ events daily; serves 200K+ customers and 4M+ total users across 146 countries [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/about/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by prominent venture capital firms (specific names not listed on the about page, but the company has raised significant capital). Key integrations include GitHub, Slack, Jira, and Linear. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Codecov in December 2022 to expand into code coverage; processes 790B+ events per month; has 200+ employees across offices in San Francisco, Vienna, Toronto, Amsterdam, New York, and Sydney. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/about/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Developer-First DNA**: Built by developers for developers, with an open-source heritage that fosters deep trust and community adoption.
- **Unified Observability Platform**: Uniquely connects errors, logs, session replays, traces, profiles, and metrics under a single trace ID, providing end-to-end context that competitors like Datadog or New Relic offer as separate products.
- **AI-Native Debugging**: Seer, the AI debugger, goes beyond simple alerting to automatically root-cause issues and generate patches, a significant moat in the AI-assisted development space.
- **Massive Scale & Community**: Loved by millions of developers and 200K organizations, with 190B+ events processed daily, creating a powerful network effect and data advantage for AI models. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/about/)

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Developer Tools**: Deep investment in AI (Seer, AI code review, AI evals) to move from passive monitoring to proactive debugging and automated fixing.
- **Unified Observability**: Continuing to break down silos between errors, performance, logs, and replays into a single, trace-connected experience.
- **Platform Expansion**: Growing beyond error tracking into a full-stack observability and developer productivity platform, including code coverage (via Codecov acquisition) and AI-assisted development.
- **Enterprise Scale**: Building out capabilities for large organizations (enterprise product marketing, solutions engineering, security compliance) while maintaining a strong developer experience.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes "pixels matter" (attention to detail), constructive feedback, iteration, and valuing people from diverse backgrounds. The culture is described as relatively small, fast-growing, and highly influential. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Offers roles across multiple global offices (San Francisco, Toronto, Vienna, Amsterdam, New York, Sydney) with a mix of in-office and remote positions. The careers page lists specific locations for each role. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)
- **Notable Perks**: Competitive compensation + equity, flexible PTO, paid parental leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k plan (US), commuter benefits, professional development stipend, charitable matching program, and a well-stocked office (including "a minimum of six different brands of sparkling water"). [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)
- **Engineering Culture**: High ownership and autonomy; engineers influence product, brand, and culture. The company is known for shipping high-quality code and has a strong open-source ethos. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations. Explicitly states that software should be accessible, starting with making the industry accessible. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)

## Sources
1. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/about/)
2. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/careers/)
3. [sentry.io](https://sentry.io/welcome/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentry)
5. [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7024898)

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