Product Engineer North America →

Linear; United States; Remote; USD 174,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

US equity terms

Daily meal & coffee stipend

Health coverage

5 weeks paid vacation

4 months parental leave

Long-service month off after 4 years

Team events & off-sites

Remote-first, no commute

Job summary

Linear is a remote-first company building the product development system for teams. The role focuses on implementing AI-powered features, owning end-to-end development from idea to ship, and delivering high-quality UX across the product.

We value autonomy in a lean, high-output team and offer an equity-forward package with remote work across North America. You will collaborate across founders, product, and design to ship impactful features with strong performance and polish.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience building customer-facing products.
• Experience driving complex, end-to-end features with visible impact.
• Product sense: UX, speed, polish; push back when needed.
• Capable of shaping problems with minimal PM overhead.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with founders, product and design to implement concepts.
• Integrate AI-powered functionality into the core product.
• Update the collaborative content editor used across internal surfaces.
• Build new user-facing features with scalable UI components.
• Obsessively improve application performance.
• Refine development processes for high-velocity teamwork.

Skills

Customer-facing products

End-to-end features

UX focus

Ownership mindset

Remote async work

Tools

GraphQL API

SDK

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Temporal

Redis

Job description

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires.

Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 50,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.

As a small team, we're all generalists that work across the full stack (built in TypeScript end-to-end). We’re looking for engineers that thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility to help us build the future of product development.

Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America. You can work from anywhere within this region. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel.

What you'll do

Work closely with founders, product, and design to implement new concepts and ideas

Build AI-powered functionality into the core of Linear

Update our collaborative content editor used across all internal surfaces

Build new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components

Obsessively improve application performance

Refine our software development processes to keep the team operating at high velocity

What we're looking for

2-5 years of experience building customer-facing products at a software company with a high engineering bar

Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvements and refactors) with visible impact on the product

Product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you push back when something doesn't feel right

Comfortable working without heavy PM overhead; you can help to shape the problem, not just implement a solution

High ownership mentality: self-directed, full-lifecycle builder who takes a feature from idea to shipped

Thrives in a remote, async-first environment with a lean, high-output team

Experience at a startup or a company with a genuinely high engineering bar

Our tech

This stack reflects the systems we build and operate. You’re not expected to have experience with everything listed, but you should be excited to work close to product, performance, and real-world scale.

Agentic workflow system utilizing temporal, operating at production scale

Extensive, highly-trafficked GraphQL API and SDK

Node, PostgreSQL, Temporal, and Redis on the backend

Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s

GitHub, Slack, Notion

What we offer

We're a small, focused team that cares deeply about the quality of our work and the people we do it with. Here's what you can expect:

Competitive salary and equity

Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows

Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday

Health coverage (based on country requirements)

5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays

4 months paid parental leave

Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter

Regular team events and off-sites

Remote-first with no required commute

Compensation

For US-based candidates, the expected cash compensation range for this role is $174,000—$245,000. For sales roles, this range represents on-target earnings (OTE), including base salary and variable compensation; for all other roles, it represents base salary. Final compensation is determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. For sales roles, actual earnings vary based on sales performance. Equity is a meaningful part of all offers at Linear.

A note on recruitment fraud:

all official Linear hiring communication comes from an @linear.app email address, and all open roles are listed at linear.app/careers. We never ask candidates for payment or financial information. Suspicious messages can be reported to [e-mail].

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.