Manager of Design Engineering

Who you are

• Consider yourself a design engineer, or a designer who codes
• Are passionate about design systems as the context layer for agentic frontend development, and want to build tools and skills that enable product teams to ship faster
• Nerd out over component APIs, variant structures, and tokenization and naming conventions
• Care deeply about consistency but know when a pattern needs to flex for a specific use case
• Care deeply about interface quality, and want to build world class front-end infrastructure you can be proud of
• Get as much out of growing people as you do out of building things
• 3+ years of experience in a full-time design system or design engineering team
• 2+ years of people management experience
• Strong visual and interaction design skills with a sharp eye for spacing, hierarchy, and micro-interactions
• Deep fluency in React, TypeScript, CSS, and the DOM
• Familiarity with Figma's design systems tooling — components, variants, variables, auto layout, shared libraries, and branching workflows
• Able to balance long-term system thinking with the practical needs of product teams shipping on tight timelines

What the job involves

• Sentry is looking for a Manager, Design Engineering to lead the team behind Scraps, our design system
• This role would manage a team of designers and front-end engineers that is building the infrastructure that powers our UI development
• This role lives at the intersection of design, engineering and AI tooling. The ideal candidate is comfortable reviewing a component's API in a pull request, can critique the consistency of typography across components, and has created skills to help agents use a design system more effectively
• This role will set the direction for our system, grow the team, and stay close enough to the work to make design and implementation decisions
• Manage and grow a team of engineers and designers — hiring, leveling, and coaching across both crafts
• Own the strategic roadmap for the team: what components to prioritize, what tools to adopt, which parts of the web app to refactor, etc
• Help maintain the UI quality and expression that Sentry is known for
• Keep design and code in sync — tokens, variables, component parity, and the pipeline from Figma to production
• Stay hands-on building components and the infrastructure to enable fast, accurate agentic front-end development and prototyping
• Drive adoption across product teams through documentation, lint rules, and contribution workflows that don't slow anyone down

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation + Equity
• 401k Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Commuter Stipend
• Professional Development Stipend
• Health & Wellness Benefits
• Charitable Matching Program
• Flexible PTO
• Paid Parental Leave