Product Engineer

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in San Francisco builds developer and AI-agent workflows and backend services to run in customer environments. You will contribute to Go-based infrastructure, APIs, and orchestration that scales across clouds, while ensuring security and reliability.

Join a cross-disciplinary team, own production quality from design to shipping, and collaborate with frontend and design colleagues to make complex backend capabilities easy to use for customers.

Qualifications

• Strong Go skills and production backend experience.
• Understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and state.
• Ability to reason about failures and recovery.
• Practical experience with Linux, containers, cloud infrastructure, and networking.
• Knowledge of routing, DNS, and secure connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure and customer-facing workflows that let developers and AI agents work reliably in parallel.
• Work directly with customers to build developer and security workflows.
• Support projects from initial setup through investigating findings, reviewing agent-generated changes, and verifying fixes.
• Build Go services and APIs for provisioning cloud environments.
• Run agents in customer infrastructure.
• Integrate with source control, CI, and other developer tools.
• Design reliable orchestration for long-running, parallel work, including durable state, retries, cancellation, and recovery.
• Build security into execution workflows through permissions, credential handling, isolation, and auditability.
• Own production quality through testing, safe rollouts, observability, performance, and operational reliability.
• Partner with frontend and design colleagues to make complex backend capabilities straightforward to use.
• Own outcomes from understanding user problems and choosing an approach through shipping, operating, and improving solutions.

Skills

Go Programming

Distributed Systems

Concurrency

API Design

Linux

Containers

Cloud Infrastructure

Networking

Kubernetes

Security Products

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

CI Tools

Developer Platforms

Job description

• Build infrastructure and customer-facing workflows that let developers and AI agents work reliably in parallel


• Work directly with customers to build developer and security workflows


• Support projects from initial setup through investigating findings, reviewing agent-generated changes, and verifying fixes


• Build Go services and APIs for provisioning cloud environments


• Run agents in customer infrastructure


• Integrate with source control, CI, and other developer tools


• Design reliable orchestration for long-running, parallel work, including durable state, retries, cancellation, and recovery


• Build security into execution workflows through permissions, credential handling, isolation, and auditability


• Own production quality through testing, safe rollouts, observability, performance, and operational reliability


• Partner with frontend and design colleagues to make complex backend capabilities straightforward to use


• Own outcomes from understanding user problems and choosing an approach through shipping, operating, and improving solutions

Requirements

• Strong Go skills and experience building and operating production backend systems


• Understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and state


• Ability to reason about failures and recovery


• Practical experience with Linux, containers, cloud infrastructure, and networking


• Knowledge of routing, DNS, and secure connectivity


• Ability to design clear APIs and data models


• Product-minded approach and willingness to stay close to customers


• Ability to own solutions from problem discovery through launch and iteration


• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly


• Ability to work effectively across disciplines and locations


• Experience building on AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus


• Depth in developer platforms, workflow engines, Kubernetes, networking, sandboxing, identity systems, security products, or AI-agent workflows would be useful


• Frontend experience is welcome but not required

Core Competencies

Demonstrates strong Go programming skills and experience in building and operating production backend systems, with a focus on designing reliable APIs and workflows. Capable of integrating security into execution workflows and collaborating effectively across disciplines to deliver customer-centric solutions.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Go Programming


• Distributed Systems


• Cloud Infrastructure


• API Design


• Operational Reliability

Hard Skills

• Go Programming


• Distributed Systems


• Concurrency


• API Design


• Linux


• Containers


• Cloud Infrastructure


• Networking


• Kubernetes


• Security Products

Soft Skills

• Product-Minded Approach


• Clear Communication


• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

Industry Keywords

• Cloud Environments


• Security Workflows


• AI-Agent Workflows


• Observability


• Performance

Tools & Technologies

• AWS


• GCP


• Azure


• CI Tools


• Developer Platforms