Staff Software Engineer, Product

What You’ll Do

• Direct AI coding agents to build production systems quickly, while maintaining discipline around system design, ownership, and real-world behavior.
• Decide what to build and what not to build as implementation costs drop.
• Set technical direction across engineering, including system boundaries, data models, ownership, and operational expectations.
• Co-own product direction in partnership with design and research, defining both what we build and how we build it.
• Make and stand behind hard tradeoffs between speed, reliability, complexity, and extensibility.
• Shape architecture early, before decisions harden into constraints.
• Own critical outcomes end-to-end, from problem framing to deployment and iteration.

Raise the Bar

• Set the standard for technical depth, judgment, and production ownership.
• Prevent avoidable complexity from entering the system as iteration speed increases.
• Mentor engineers on how to use AI tools effectively without lowering engineering rigor.
• Identify and eliminate recurring classes of design mistakes before they scale.

Multiply the Organization

• Design systems and workflows that allow small teams to ship with outsized impact.
• Attract exceptional engineers and help them grow into high-judgment technical leaders.
• Increase team velocity without increasing operational and conceptual overhead.

Who You Are (Required)

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
• Led multiple non-trivial projects, owning technical direction and execution end-to-end.
• Made high-stakes technical decisions that materially affected a system or product.
• Fluent with AI coding tools and have used them to ship real functionality in production or substantial side projects.
• Possess either: Strong technical depth (system design, distributed systems, security, infrastructure) or strong product intuition (user empathy, prioritization, taste in UX). Ideally both.

What Sets You Apart

• Personally responsible for at least one clearly measurable, real-world success (e.g., product with 100k+ users, system serving millions of requests/day, open-source project with 10k+ stars).

Compensation

Base pay range: $230,000 – $360,000 per year.