Product Engineer

About Krea

At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools.

We're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium. We recently took this a step forward with the launch of Krea 2, our first foundation model, built completely from scratch for aesthetic diversity and stylistic control.

We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.

We're looking for a product engineer to help take sub-products already driving significant revenue and make them more robust, while shipping new product surfaces for our creative users. You'd work primarily in Svelte Kit (React experience also fine), touching Postgres/Redis/Click House, with occasional reach into Python ML inference on GPU clusters and our multi-cloud k8s setup as needed.

• Build real-time collaboration and canvas tooling (e.g. WebGL2/WebGPU for our node-based tools & CRDTs)

• Ship durable execution for long-running workflows and public APIs (OpenAPI docs auto-generated from Zod schemas)

• Reach into Python ML inference on GPU clusters and our multi-cloud k8s setup as features require it

• Own cross-service metrics, tracing, and observability for the features you ship

• 4+ years of experience, ideally with 1+ years contributing to a product with millions of users

• Real, significant Svelte or React experience - this isn't a pure-backend role

• Strong first-principles thinking and product sense over attachment to any specific framework

• Comfort owning things end-to-end, from idea to shipped, measured impact

• Clear written and verbal communication

• Taste - a strong, well-developed point of view on what good creative work looks like

Nice to have

• Python/PyTorch or GPU-backed ML inference experience

• A creative background (design, art, architecture, or similar)

• Svelte Kit, Type Script, Python, Postgres (AWS Aurora), Redis, Click House, Docker, Kubernetes, FluxCD

• Team :
  Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling

• Impact :
  Significant scope and company-wide impact

• Competitive compensation : generous salary & equity packages

• Health & wellness : 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage

• Time off :
  Flexible PTO policy

• Financial planning : 401k with a 4% company-sponsored match

• Meals in the office : breakfast, lunch, dinner - you name it, we'll cover it

• Transit :
  Ubers covered to & from the office

• Sponsorship :
  We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).

• And more!

Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees