Manager, Design Engineering

Sentry•San Francisco, CA

4d•$200,000 - $270,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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