Sesame
Product Engineering Lead
$250K–$320K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years as a software engineer, including 5+ years managing a team of 5+ engineers.
About the job
Leads product engineering for Sesame’s conversational-agent products, combining hands-on technical work, team leadership, and accountability for product outcomes and quality.
What you'll do
- Lead the team to ship products and own software end-to-end, including deployment, reliability, and production operations.
- Stay hands-on with prototyping, bug fixing, project risk reduction, and product quality; set technical direction and architecture.
- Develop and hire engineers, and partner with product and design.
What they ask for
- 10+ years as a software engineer, including 5+ years managing a team of 5+ engineers.
- Experience managing engineers and leading teams through complex projects to successful outcomes.
- Full-stack product engineering experience with depth in scalable web infrastructure and distributed systems serving millions of people.
- Personally shipped a product from zero to one, or served as a core engineer on an industry-transforming project.
Nice to have
- Experience building AI-centered products or software for consumer hardware.
- Experience with Python, TypeScript, GCP, and Kubernetes.
Pay
$250K – $320K (USD; base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, GCP, Kubernetes
AI focus
The team builds personal conversational agents; preferred experience includes building AI-centered products.
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