Staff Software Engineer, Product Surfaces

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of a significant product area from start to finish, encompassing users, architecture, metrics, economics, failure modes, and production behavior.

• Transform incomplete product visions into fully developed, production-ready offerings.

• Make product and technical choices regarding integrations, edge cases, onboarding, permissions, analytics, rollout, observability, billing, and supportability.

• Develop across frontend, backend, APIs, data, infrastructure, native clients, AI systems, and third-party platforms.

• Utilize AI agents for implementation, exploration, and testing while maintaining accountability for judgment and outcomes.

• Enhance context, tooling, evaluations, observability, and guardrails to promote safe autonomy.

• Analyze production behavior, investigate failures, and iterate based on data-driven insights.

• Minimize ambiguity, manage scope, and deliver valuable results to users.

• Aim to make the product area increasingly self-observing while decreasing repetitive manual operational tasks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in owning significant user-facing products or product areas from beginning to end.

• A track record of transforming vague or incomplete concepts into production-ready systems.

• Strong product judgment and the ability to make decisions independently without constant specification or approval.

• Extensive technical judgment across system boundaries, with the capacity to dive deep when necessary.

• Solid foundation in modern software engineering principles and production debugging skills.

• Significant hands-on experience with AI coding agents as part of routine development workflows.

• Familiarity with tool calling, MCP, agents, evaluations, context, and permissions.

• Evidence of creating leverage through automation, tooling, observability, or systems that reduce repetitive manual tasks.

• Ability to quickly learn new and unfamiliar domains.

• Availability for at least a half-day overlap with Sydney time.

• Full working rights in the United States, Australia, or New Zealand.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity in the products you create.

• Autonomy-first approach and flexible working arrangements.

• At least a half-day overlap with Sydney time.

• Access to modern tools including Linear, Mixpanel, Datadog, Claude Code, and Cursor.