Senior Solutions Engineer

Sentry Sentry · Enterprise · Sydney, Australia · Customer Success

Solutions Engineer role focused on post-sales technical partnership and customer success, guiding architecture decisions, troubleshooting implementations, and providing feedback to product/engineering teams. The role involves understanding customer pain points, developing best practices, and acting as a subject-matter expert for Sentry's error and performance monitoring tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understand customers' pain points and objectives and translate those into implementation and onboarding plans to meet those objectives and demonstrate business value.
  2. 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).
  3. Act as a trusted advisor and subject-matter expert for customers to assist with instrumenting software engineering and monitoring best practices
  4. Provide workshop-level interaction to customers in order to drive the maturity of use and broader adoption.
  5. Work cross-functionally (internally) to provide feedback to the product and development teams and align Sentry's product roadmap with improving time to value-delivered.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years as a Solutions Engineer (preferred), Implementation Consultant, Support Engineer, or Software Developer with experience leading projects and/or working with customers.
  • Hands-on experience working with programming languages and frameworks including JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Java, PHP, .NET, Ruby, React, React Native, Mobile Native (iOS and/or Android), etc.
  • Possess excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Problem solver, knowledgable, and can-doer

Nice to have

  • experience leading projects
  • working with customers

What the JD emphasized

  • founding Solutions Engineer role
  • primary focus on post-sales technical partnership
  • long-term customer success
  • first dedicated technical resource on the ground
  • defining our regional post-sales engagement model
  • building Sentry’s presence from the ground up
  • high-impact, globally recognized customers
  • deepen adoption
  • drive standardization
  • support complex, large-scale implementations
  • high degree of autonomy
  • ownership
  • technical leadership
  • guide architecture decisions
  • troubleshoot complex implementations
  • translate real-world usage into actionable product feedback
  • advocate for customer needs
  • improve how we deliver and scale post-sales technical engagement
  • shaping—and eventually scaling—the regional solutions engineering function