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.
• 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.

• Care deeply about consistency but know when a pattern needs to flex for a specific use case
• 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
• Get as much out of growing people as you do out of building things
• Care deeply about interface quality, and want to build world class front-end infrastructure you can be proud of
• 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