Fireworks
Member of Technical Staff, Developer Experience
San Mateo, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will build the growth platform, including systems and experiences that guide developers from their first visit to long-term customer status. You will own developer outcomes by finding problems, prototyping, shipping to production, and analyzing results.
What you will do
- Own developer outcomes end to end from problem shaping to production shipping.
- Build growth foundations like event tracking, funnels, and experimentation frameworks.
- Design and run experiments with clear hypotheses and metrics.
- Talk to developers directly to observe their building process and bring feedback back as code.
- Craft polished, fast, and accessible experiences on the marketing site and in the product.
- Dig into funnel and cohort data to identify next steps.
- Work closely with product, design, marketing, data, and sales.
- Use AI coding tools to move quickly while owning shipping quality.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years building and shipping user-facing products as a senior, staff, or founding engineer.
- A track record of moving business metrics.
- Strong full-stack skills: TypeScript/React on the front end, backend services, APIs, data models, and SQL.
- A product engineer mindset.
- A designer's eye for interaction details, copy, and flow.
- Hands-on experience with A/B testing, funnel analysis, and product analytics.
- Genuine high agency.
- A bias toward action.
- Comfort in ambiguity and ability to lead without authority.
- Clear written and verbal communication.
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, EE, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Growth, activation, or monetization experience at a developer-tools, API, or infra company.
- Experience building developer-facing products (APIs, SDKs, dev tools, consoles).
- Experience with consumption or usage-based pricing and billing.
- Experience building PLG or self-serve inside a company that also sells top-down.
- Experience with trust & safety or identity systems.
- Built with LLM APIs and have opinions on developer onboarding for AI.
- A portfolio, side projects, or launches that show taste and range.
Benefits
- Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure.
- Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology.
- Ownership & Impact: Work where work directly shapes the future of AI with no bureaucracy.
- Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers.
Before you apply
- Expect a practical product and engineering exercise.
About the company
Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion that provides a platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models.