Engineering Lead, US

Namespace Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and stock options

Flexible working hours

Market-leading parental leave

Job summary

Namespace Labs is looking for a Product Engineering Lead to establish their presence in the US. You will lead a high-performing team and make technical decisions that enhance developer productivity. Your role will include building applications that integrate with existing workflows and shipping impactful features.

Ideal candidates will have leadership experience, strong software engineering skills, and a customer-centric mindset. Expect competitive salary, stock options, and flexible working hours.

Qualifications

• Ability to lead high performing individual contributors.
• Experience in building impactful product features for developers.
• Strong understanding of user-centric product design.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical decisions and build a high-performing engineering team.
• Partner with product and design for technical direction.
• Own end-to-end features and ensure seamless integration.

Skills

Leadership and management skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Production-grade software experience

Customer-centric mindset

Enthusiasm for continuous learning

Tools

TypeScript

JavaScript

Go

Python

Job description

About the role

Namespace's approach is low-friction, designed for immediate integration into existing developer toolchains, empowering teams to experience tangible results within just five minutes. With an end-to-end stack optimized for high performance—including compute, memory, storage, and networking—Namespace delivers capabilities and efficiencies unmatched by traditional cloud providers.

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

What you'll do

• 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 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

What we're looking for

• Leadership and management skills to lead high performing ICs
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience building production-grade software in languages like TypeScript/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

You can expect:

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

Life at Namespace Labs:

• 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.