Descript
Software Engineer, Product
$200K–$275K
San Francisco, CA or Remote, US +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA or Remote, US
Remote
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Own and deliver full-stack product features across Descript’s video editor, growth, media, AI agent, or identity and access products, from discovery through launch and measurement.
What you'll do
- Lead product work end to end, including defining problems, designing and implementing solutions, launching, measuring outcomes, and maintaining features.
- Partner with Product and Design to shape user experiences, choose metrics, and simplify complex problems.
- Improve engineering practices and systems through architecture, reviews, mentoring, testing, observability, and release practices.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building and shipping customer-facing products, including end-to-end features that measurably improved user or business outcomes.
- Experience owning features or experiments from planning through launch and using analytics and metrics to evaluate impact.
- Effectively leverage agents to increase impact and think critically about harnessing AI in work.
- Navigate unfamiliar systems, clarify ambiguous work, and rigorously validate software using evidence such as reproductions, logs, and tests.
Nice to have
- Experience with an editor, media product, creative tool, or payment system.
- Experience building agents or experimenting with media-generation models, product analytics, or video technologies.
Pay
$200,000-$275,000 USD base salary
Tools
TypeScript, HTML/CSS, React, Redux, Node.js, Temporal Workflows, SQL, Rust
AI focus
Use AI agents to increase engineering impact; depending on team, build Descript’s AI co-editor and its tools, evaluations, and feedback loops, or craft AI into creative tools.
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