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.

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