Lead Product Engineer (Developer Platform)

Accountabilities

• Design the core platform primitives developers need, including projects, environments, secrets, and logs, and ensure they work cohesively across compute, edge scripting, and database capabilities.


• Shape the Developer Platform product direction from discovery through delivery, iteration, and continuous improvement.


• Translate developer insights, customer needs, and market signals into clear product priorities and engineering plans.


• Identify and resolve technical or product decisions that could undermine a unified and intuitive developer experience before they reach production.


• Provide clarity on complex problems and establish the context needed for engineers to make effective decisions independently.


• Lead a small engineering team by setting direction, developing people, providing clear feedback, and maintaining a high standard for shipped and operated systems.


• Remain hands-on by contributing to prototypes, application programming interfaces (APIs), dashboards, instrumentation, documentation, and production code.


• Define and measure product success, from initial deployment through adoption and expansion, and use data and learnings to guide future priorities.


• Work cross-functionally with Compute, Frontend, Design, and Product Marketing teams to create a cohesive experience across the dashboard, API, command-line interface (CLI), and documentation.


• Make pragmatic architectural and tooling decisions that balance experimentation speed, reliability, performance, security, cost, and customer trust.


• Conduct experiments and Proofs of Concept (PoCs) where appropriate to validate technical approaches and determine whether solutions can scale.


• Promote strong product thinking, technical judgment, ownership, and decision-making practices across the engineering organization.

• Experience owning the full product discovery, delivery, and iteration lifecycle at meaningful scale, or demonstrated readiness to take on this level of end-to-end ownership.


• Strong product judgment and the ability to turn ambiguous, complex problems into clear priorities and meaningful outcomes.


• Strong technical depth and the ability to challenge solutions, evaluate trade-offs, and make production changes independently.


• Comfortable working with data, including defining meaningful metrics, interpreting funnels and retention curves, and using experimentation to inform decisions.


• Strong business and market awareness, including understanding Ideal Customer Profiles (ICP), pricing, competitive dynamics, revenue drivers, and how products support broader business strategy.


• High standards for software quality, reliability, performance, security, and customer trust.


• Proven ability to help other engineers make stronger technical and product decisions and take greater ownership.


• Experience leading engineers, including setting direction, developing people, providing feedback, and creating an environment where teams can make product decisions rather than simply execute tasks.


• Clear communication skills, high ownership, and a low-ego approach to collaboration.


• Strong ability to work strategically while remaining comfortable getting hands-on with technical implementation.


• Fluency with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and workflows, using AI thoughtfully for research, analysis, prototyping, coding, testing, and communication while maintaining accountability for quality.


• Experience building developer platforms, deployment tools, or products where developer experience is a central part of the product is highly desirable.


• Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and debugging workloads on comparable platforms is a plus.


• Ability to engage directly with customers as comfortably as working deeply with technology.


• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to understand how individual features, products, technical systems, and teams fit together.


• Ability to work effectively in a distributed European environment, ideally within approximately three hours of Central European Time (CET).

• 100% flexible working hours.


• Remote-first working model with the freedom to work from anywhere.


• Three-night voucher for visiting the company headquarters.


• Worldwide medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.


• 25 vacation days, plus one additional loyalty day per year up to a maximum of 5 additional days, on top of local public holidays.


• Meeting-free Thursdays to support uninterrupted deep work.


• €500 annual home office budget.


• Paid sick leave.


• Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non-birthing parents, with top-up provisions where local statutory benefits are lower.


• Annual in-person team gathering.


• Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP), starting with 0.01% equity.


• Mental health resources and support through BetterHelp.


• €480 annual wellness budget.


• €500 annual educational budget for books, seminars, courses, and other learning opportunities.


• Annual Apple Music, Spotify, or YouTube Premium subscription.


• Opportunity to work on developer infrastructure and products used by a global developer community.


• Significant autonomy, technical ownership, and opportunities to influence product direction.

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