Manager of Design Engineering

Join Sentry as the Manager of Design Engineering, where you will lead the team behind Scraps, our design system. In this role, you will manage a team of designers and front-end engineers, set the strategic roadmap for the team, and maintain the UI quality that Sentry is known for. You will also stay hands-on in building components and driving adoption across product teams.

Manage and grow a team of engineers and designers, including hiring, leveling, and coaching across both crafts.

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

Care deeply about interface quality, and want to build world class front-end infrastructure you can be proud of

About Sentry

Get as much out of growing people as you do out of building things

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic roadmap for the team, prioritizing components, adopting tools, and refactoring parts of the web app.
• Drive adoption of the design system across product teams through documentation, lint rules, and contribution workflows.

Requirements

• Care deeply about consistency but know when a pattern needs to flex for a specific use case
• Consider yourself a design engineer, or a designer who codes
• Nerd out over component APIs, variant structures, and tokenization and naming conventions
• 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
• Strong visual and interaction design skills with a sharp eye for spacing, hierarchy, and micro-interactions

2+ years of people management experience

• Deep fluency in React, TypeScript, CSS, and the DOM
• 3+ years of experience in a full-time design system or design engineering team

Pay

USD 200,000 - 270,000