Product Engineering Lead

Overview

Join our mission. We’re proud to work with many incredible companies, accelerating their ability to build their products. We have observed that talented engineering teams lose momentum due to bottlenecks in CI, builds, and tests—and we set out to build a developer infrastructure platform that integrates with existing workflows while delivering faster, more cost-effective results. Today, we’re accelerating hundreds of companies worldwide, helping them ship features instead of waiting for infrastructure.

We’ve created a system that makes infrastructure feel simple: you can change your runs-on line, mount your toolchain cache directory, and dramatically speed up builds.

About Namespace:
Namespace’s approach is low-friction and designed for immediate integration into existing developer tool chains, delivering tangible results within minutes. Our end-to-end stack is optimized for high performance across compute, memory, storage, and networking, offering capabilities and efficiencies that traditional cloud providers do not.

As the Product Engineering Lead for Namespace in the US, you will establish the US presence for Namespace. Beyond building a high-performing team, you’ll lead technical decisions and develop products that enhance developer productivity. You will build intuitive, performant user-facing applications and integrations that fit into developers’ workflows, directly impacting their ability to ship faster and more efficiently.

• Serve as the first technical leader for our US presence, setting a high bar for engineering quality, product thinking, and execution
• Start, build, and lead a small product engineering team in the US
• Partner closely with product, design, and leadership to translate company goals into clear technical direction and execution plans
• Act as a bridge between the team in Europe, users, product strategy, and engineering, ensuring we build the right things and build them well
• Help shape the long-term technical and organizational foundations for scaling product engineering
• Own and ship end-to-end features that integrate seamlessly with popular developer tools
• Develop user-facing applications that make powerful infrastructure intuitive and accessible to developers
• Collaborate directly with users and partners to deeply understand their workflows, pain points, and product needs
• Continuously iterate on product design and implementation to drive adoption, performance, and reliability

• Leadership and management skills to lead high performing ICs
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience building production-grade software in languages like Type Script/JavaScript (React), Go, Python, or similar
• Proven track record shipping impactful product features, preferably for developer-focused or infrastructure products
• Customer-centric mindset with the ability to translate complex technical solutions into intuitive user experiences
• Enthusiasm for continuous learning and a collaborative approach to product development

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Flexible working hours
• Market-leading parental leave

• We pride ourselves in being a small team of experts that can achieve a lot.
• We balance our long-term vision with short-term pragmatism.
• We believe in being fully transparent internally on how decisions are made, on how the company is doing, and we use that information to drive our decisions.

Compensation Range: $200K - $225K