Staff Software Engineer, Console

Accountabilities • Technical Strategy and Architecture: Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and long-term development strategy for the developer console, playground, account management services, and AI-powered developer tooling, ensuring solutions support scalability and future product growth.

• Cross-Functional Project Leadership: Lead complex, high-priority engineering initiatives from initial concept through implementation and launch. Make critical technical decisions, manage dependencies, and communicate progress and milestones to relevant stakeholders.

• Strategic Collaboration: Partner with senior leaders across Engineering, Product, Design, Sales, and Marketing to shape product roadmaps, establish priorities, and influence broader business and technology decisions.

• Engineering Planning and Execution: Collaborate with engineering management and product leadership to translate strategic objectives into actionable development plans, prioritizing incremental delivery and measurable outcomes.

• Full-Stack Development: Remain actively involved in software development by designing, building, and shipping high-quality user interfaces, APIs, and backend services for customer-facing applications.

• Product-Led Growth Infrastructure: Build and improve the technical foundations supporting self-service adoption, including activation funnels, in-product upgrade experiences, usage-based billing instrumentation, and product-led growth experimentation.

• AI-Powered Developer Experiences: Shape how developers interact with AI technologies through MCP servers, SDK integrations, AI agent playgrounds, and LLM-powered development tools.

• Technical Excellence and Problem Solving: Identify recurring issues across incidents, technical debt, and engineering workflows. Investigate root causes, anticipate future challenges, and implement sustainable solutions.

• Engineering Standards and Mentorship: Raise the overall engineering quality through architecture and design reviews, code reviews, technical standards, and ongoing mentorship of senior and mid-level engineers.

• Continuous Innovation: Explore emerging technologies and development practices, challenging existing assumptions and identifying opportunities to improve product performance, reliability, and developer experience.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and delivering customer-facing full-stack web applications.

• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead on large-scale, cross-functional engineering projects with significant business impact.

• Strong frontend development expertise, including modern web technologies, frameworks, web fundamentals, and user experience principles.

• Solid backend engineering experience using languages such as Python, Rust, Go, or similar, including the design and development of scalable APIs and customer-facing services.

• Proven ability to define and influence architectural decisions that support growing products, engineering teams, and business requirements.

• Experience collaborating with senior stakeholders on technical strategy, product roadmaps, and prioritization, with the ability to influence decisions without direct authority.

• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify underlying causes of technical challenges and implement long-term solutions.

• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers, conducting technical reviews, and improving engineering standards and development practices.

• Comfort working in fast-paced startup or high-growth environments, with the ability to build quickly, iterate frequently, and support experimentation.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing AI-powered developer tools, such as interactive playgrounds, SDK experiences, developer documentation, or machine learning model evaluation interfaces.

• Familiarity with agentic AI or voice AI integrations, including MCP servers, function-calling pipelines, and voice assistant SDKs.

• Experience driving product-led growth initiatives within a developer-tools organization, including activation experiments, usage-based pricing models, and in-product upgrade experiences.

• Experience with React or a strong interest in developing expertise in the framework.

• Advanced backend engineering knowledge, including PostgreSQL, database architecture, schema design, and large-scale performance optimization.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerized deployments, and hybrid cloud environments involving both bare-metal data centers and cloud providers.

• Interest or experience in Rust, LLM APIs, GPU technologies, and real-time audio systems.

• Curiosity about emerging technologies and the ability to challenge conventional approaches to software architecture and AI development.

Benefits

• Competitive annual base salary based on location:

• Tier 1 locations (San Francisco, New York, Seattle): $276,800–$307,500 USD.

• Tier 2 locations (all other eligible U.S. locations): $246,700–$274,100 USD.

• Equity participation opportunities.

• Potential annual performance bonus of up to 10%.

• Comprehensive employee benefits package.

• Health insurance coverage.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance coverage.

• Retirement savings plan with employer 401(k) matching contributions.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• Fully remote working arrangement within the United States.

• Opportunity to work on innovative AI technologies and high-impact engineering projects.

• Professional growth through technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and exposure to emerging technologies.

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