Hiring: Product Engineering Lead Company: Sesame Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:55:43 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : GCP, Kubernetes, Python, TypeScript About the job Experience: •10+ years as a software engineer, including 5+ years managing a team of 5+ engineers. Required Skills: •Sesame is an interface company. We're building the most human interface for intelligence. Our personal agents, like Maya, hold natural conversations and make the devices they run on more useful. We're looking for someone to lead this team. •Strategically drive 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. •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. •You've built products centered on AI and have hard-won intuition for what makes them work. •Consumer hardware product experience, building the software side of a physical product. •Sesame is committed to a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome all qualified applicants, embracing diversity in race, gender, identity, orientation, ability, and more. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Contact careers@sesame.com for assistance. Compensation: •$250,000 - $320,000 / year •100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!