Senior Software Engineer (C/C++), SDK

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 As a Senior Software Engineer, Native, on our client infrastructure (SDK) team, you'll join a cross-functional group of Software Engineers that is responsible for the client facing operation of Sentry. This includes building and maintaining SDK libraries, extending our existing native integrations, and building new integrations for Gaming Consoles. This means you will be involved in the design and evolution of both external and internal services, as well as create new mission critical software at Sentry. If you want to build and improve product features that empower software development teams to do their best work, all while writing open source code, this could be the role for you. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL - Develop first-class clients for native languages like C and C++, as well as integrations for popular frameworks in Gaming, IoT and high performance applications - Work in the Game Dev Experience (GDX) team to improve and evolve our native, game engine and console products - Puzzle over unique challenges in the fields of compilers, debugging, operating system internals, low-level optimization, and distributed systems - Use a variety of programming languages, systems, and technologies to own and solve problems related to mission critical software of Sentry (C and C++ — but also Rust, Python, .NET and JavaScript) - Collaborate with Infrastructure and Operations teams to build solutions that scale (we process over a billion events every day) - Write unit and integration tests that ensure the correctness of your work, as well as strong documentation to help educate both peers and customers YOU’LL LOVE THIS JOB IF YOU - Take pride in building features that don't just work, but are also delightful to use - Like to take challenges that you don't see every day, daily - Care about writing highly performant code - Build a product by developers for developers - Join a modern software development team that iterates and ships code rapidly - Contribute to open source full-time — our product is entirely Open Source - Work with collaborative, thoughtful engineers who push themselves and others to do better QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ years relevant experience - Experience in writing high performance native server, desktop-applications or libraries - Experience in programming languages such as C and C++ - Bonus points for experience with Game engines (Unreal, Unity, Godot) or Gaming Consoles (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch) and other programming languages (Rust, .NET) - Good written and spoken English communication skills - Live in the Vienna, Austria area or are willing to relocate We are obliged by law to quote the minimum wage of EUR 60,844,-- gross per year for this position, in accordance with the respective collective agreement (IT-KV). The salary that Sentry offers you is adjusted to the current market situation and our starting point is EUR 90,000-- gross per year. 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 prov