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Product Engineering Lead

Sesame· Software
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Sesame is hiring a Product Engineering Lead to guide a team building the most human interface for intelligence and personal agents, with a focus on reliability, security, and product polish. The role combines hands-on engineering with people leadership to ship products people love.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the team's outcomes. Lead product engineering to ship products people love. You're accountable for results, not just execution.
  • Stay hands-on. You're continuously prototyping, fixing bugs, de-risking projects, and improving quality of life for the team. You plug into the work and show the team how to get more out of the tools available to engineers today.
  • Be responsible for the quality bar for products serving millions of people: reliability, security, performance, and polish. Your team owns its software end-to-end, including deployment, reliability, and production operations.
  • Grow the engineers on your team. Give clear, actionable feedback, create opportunities for people to do the best work of their careers, and hold a high bar for performance.
  • Build a talented, diverse engineering team by attracting and hiring exceptional engineers.
  • Partner closely with product and design. We have skilled product designers; you don't need to be the primary product visionary, but you need real judgment about what makes a product people love.
  • Set technical direction for the product stack and make the architectural calls that keep it simple, reliable, and fast to build on.

Qualifications

  • You've managed engineers and led teams through complex projects to outcomes you're proud of. We care about the track record, not the title.
  • 10+ years as a software engineer, including 5+ years managing a team of 5+ engineers.
  • You're a full-stack product engineer with real depth in scalable web infrastructure. You've built products on distributed systems serving millions of people and understand the reliability engineering that takes.
  • Product taste: a keen sense for what makes a product feel great.
  • You're a software engineer at heart. You'll sit on the software engineering team, and you care as much about secure, reliable, well-crafted software as you do about delightful products.
  • You've personally built and shipped a product zero to one, or been a core engineer on a transformative project at a bigger company, the kind that set the direction for the whole industry.

Skills

Required:Experience managing engineersFull-stack software engineeringProduct senseLeadership and people managementArchitectural leadership
Nice to have:AI product experience (preferred)Python, TypeScript, GCP, Kubernetes (preferred)

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
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Sesame

Bringing the computer to life

We believe in a future where computers are lifelike. Where they can see, hear, and collaborate with us – as we do with each other. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer.

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