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Sentry

Senior Manager, Support Engineering

Sentry

. Manage and coach a team of Technical Support Engineers .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in managing technical support teams, driving product improvements through data analysis, and implementing AI-assisted support solutions. Proficient in technical troubleshooting across various programming languages and systems while ensuring high-quality customer interactions.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Technical Support ManagementAI-Assisted Support SolutionsData-Driven Product ImprovementsDistributed Systems UnderstandingHands-On Customer Support

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Hard Skills
Technical SupportSupport EngineeringSoftware EngineeringPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaRubyDebuggingAPIs
Soft Skills
CoachingCommunicationTeam BuildingProblem SolvingDirect Communication
Tools & Technologies
Observability ToolsSupport AutomationAI TechnologiesCustomer Success ToolsSDKs
Industry Keywords
SaaSDeveloper ToolsCustomer ExperienceEscalation ManagementTechnical Depth

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Distributed SystemsJavaJavaScriptPythonRubyTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Manage and coach a team of Technical Support Engineers
  • Set expectations for technical depth, response quality, and ownership
  • Design coverage models across time zones, including on-call and escalation paths
  • Build career paths for Support Engineers
  • Own and report core support metrics including CX, time to resolution, and escalation rate
  • Use support conversations to identify ticket drivers and drive fixes in the product, documentation, internal operations, or SDKs
  • Own the roadmap for AI-assisted support agents
  • Define request types, required context, and human handoff criteria for support agents
  • Set quality standards and processes for detecting incomplete AI-generated answers
  • Decide where support automation should be built based on data
  • Run the escalation process with Engineering
  • Ensure bugs reach the appropriate team with reproduction details and clear impact
  • Lead high-stakes enterprise issues with Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, and Sales
  • Communicate customer pain to Product and Engineering using data
  • Provide hands-on customer support and investigate tickets when needed

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years in technical support, support engineering, or software engineering at a SaaS or developer tools company
  • 3+ years managing technical support engineers, including hiring and growing a team
  • Comfortable reading code in at least a few of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Ruby
  • Experience debugging across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and APIs
  • Understanding of how observability tools such as errors, tracing, and logs fit into distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience running AI or automation in a support organization
  • Clear understanding of AI and automation failure modes
  • Track record of using support data to drive product and process changes
  • Clear, direct written communication with customers, executives, and engineers

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Incentive compensation
  • Equity grants
  • Paid time off
  • Group health insurance coverage
  • Hybrid work model with 3 days a week in office and 2 days working remotely
  • Reasonable accommodations for employees and candidates with disabilities
  • Inclusive culture and commitment to diversity