Senior Product Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Guide product concepts from problem identification through design, implementation, deployment, and iterative improvement.

• Create experiments that have the potential to develop into independent products.

• Collaborate closely with users and internal stakeholders to pinpoint issues and decide on development priorities.

• Make informed decisions regarding scope and architecture.

• Construct backend services, APIs, infrastructure components, and targeted frontend experiences.

• Leverage existing Semaphore systems before introducing new infrastructure solutions.

• Utilize AI coding agents to efficiently explore, build, test, and ship products.

• Ensure correctness, security, clarity, reliability, and overall product quality.

• Take ownership of production results, including reliability, observability, supportability, and compliance standards.

• Clearly communicate decisions, progress updates, and potential risks.

• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, infrastructure teams, and company leadership.

• Transform ambiguous product ideas or features into successful outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in independently delivering significant software products or major product features.

• Strong product insight and the ability to identify key user challenges, streamline scope, and evaluate product readiness.

• Solid engineering judgment in areas such as system design, implementation, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

• Strong foundational knowledge in backend and systems, covering APIs, asynchronous processing, service boundaries, state and lifecycle management, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.

• Familiarity with infrastructure concepts like virtual machines, storage, networking, authentication, secrets management, containers, and cloud platforms.

• Ability to operate in a polyglot environment, including languages such as Go, Elixir, Ruby, React; mastery of each language is not necessary.

• Frontend skills to independently create or enhance specific product user experiences.

• Proficiency in modern AI-assisted development, including task decomposition for agents, providing context, reviewing generated modifications, and establishing verification processes.

• Initiative and resilience when dealing with incomplete information; capacity to identify risks early and engage others when beneficial.

• Strong proficiency in written and spoken English.

• Experience working autonomously in a remote, asynchronous team environment.

• Familiarity with developer tools, CI/CD systems, cloud platforms, or infrastructure products is a plus.

• Hands-on experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures is advantageous.

• Experience in evolving mature codebases while integrating new products or architectures is a bonus.

• Background in a lean environment where senior engineers are involved in product discovery and customer interactions is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work model.

• Collaborate within a remote, asynchronous team.

• Broad responsibility for product development and implementation.

• Direct engagement with users and internal stakeholders.

• Opportunity to incorporate AI coding agents into everyday engineering practices.

• Work across product, engineering, infrastructure, and user experience domains.

• Chance to influence the creation of new products and capabilities.