Product Engineering Lead

The role

You will lead a product engineering team to ship products and drive outcomes. You will stay hands-on with prototyping, fixing bugs, and setting technical direction for the product stack.

What you will do

• Drive the team's outcomes and lead product engineering to ship products.
• Stay hands-on by prototyping, fixing bugs, de-risking projects, and improving quality of life for the team.
• Be responsible for the quality bar including reliability, security, performance, and polish.
• Own software end-to-end including deployment, reliability, and production operations.
• Grow the engineers on the team by giving actionable feedback and creating opportunities.
• Build a talented, diverse engineering team by attracting and hiring exceptional engineers.
• Partner closely with product and design.
• Set technical direction for the product stack and make architectural calls.

Required qualifications

• Managed engineers and led teams through complex projects.
• 10+ years as a software engineer.
• 5+ years managing a team of 5+ engineers.
• Full-stack product engineer with depth in scalable web infrastructure.
• Built products on distributed systems serving millions of people.
• Product taste.
• Software engineer at heart.
• Personally built and shipped a product zero to one, or been a core engineer on a transformative project at a bigger company.

Nice to have

• Built products centered on AI.
• Consumer hardware product experience, building the software side of a physical product.
• Experience with Python, TypeScript, GCP, and Kubernetes.

Benefits

• 401 (k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
• 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
• Guardian Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options

About the company

Sesame is an interface company designing a new kind of computer focused on making voice agents part of daily lives. The team includes founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple.