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Salary: USD 200,000 - 270,000 / annual
Sentry is seeking a Manager, Design Engineering to lead the team behind Scraps, their design system. This role manages a team of designers and front-end engineers building the infrastructure that powers UI development across the organization.
The position sits at the intersection of design, engineering, and AI tooling. You will be responsible for managing and growing a cross-functional team, owning the strategic roadmap for the design system, and maintaining UI quality and consistency. Key responsibilities include hiring and coaching team members across both design and engineering disciplines, prioritizing components and tools, keeping design and code in sync (tokens, variables, component parity, Figma-to-production pipeline), and staying hands-on with component building and infrastructure development.
You'll drive adoption of the design system across product teams through documentation, lint rules, and contribution workflows. The role requires balancing long-term system thinking with the practical needs of product teams shipping on tight timelines. You should be comfortable reviewing component APIs in pull requests, critiquing design consistency, and creating skills to help AI agents use the design system more effectively.
Sentry is an application monitoring platform trusted by 200,000+ organizations, helping developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice. The company is building the AI-native future of application monitoring.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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 attention to 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, branching workflows)
- Ability to balance long-term system thinking with practical product team needs on tight timelines
- Passion for design systems as context layer for agentic frontend development
