Senior Product Engineer, Product Platform
Senior Product Engineer · Senior · Full Time
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Role
What you'll do.
Replit is seeking a Senior Product Engineer for their Product Platform team to build shared product systems and primitives that power core experiences for over 40 million users and AI agents. The role focuses on scaling foundational platform infrastructure, building agent-friendly primitives, and enabling product teams to ship faster in Replit's revolutionary agentic software development environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead Cross-Team Platform Initiatives: Take foundational systems from 0→1 and scale them to support millions of users across product teams
- Build Agent Primitives: Develop shared, extensible primitives that Replit Agent can reuse safely and consistently for meta programming
- Identify Technical Bottlenecks: Analyze and resolve highest-leverage issues in performance, reliability, correctness, abuse prevention, and observability
- Engineering Excellence Leadership: Raise standards through architecture reviews, code quality improvements, reliability standards, and mentorship
- Platform Adoption Partnership: Collaborate across teams to improve platform adoption, ergonomics, and velocity while measuring outcomes
- Connector Framework Development: Build secure connector framework for OAuth/permissions/data access enabling agent integrations with external tools
- Agent External Surfaces: Own high-quality embedded experiences for desktop/extension/embeds allowing agents to act in-context across tools
- Safety and Abuse Controls: Design permissioning, rate limits, and policy enforcement for safe agent operations at scale
- Real-time Notifications Platform: Design in-app/email surfaces and build reliable delivery/fanout with preferences and observability
- Core Web Platform Performance: Improve latency and reliability via caching strategy, profiling, and safe fallbacks
Qualifications
What we look for.
Technical
Full-Stack Web Development
Proficiency in modern web stacks including TypeScript, React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL
Platform Systems Experience
Experience building and operating platform systems that other engineering teams depend on
Production Systems Operations
Experience operating and scaling systems in production including reliability, performance, incidents, and on-call readiness
Agentic Software Development Stack
Understanding of full agentic software development stack helping coding agents build, test and review correct code
Distributed Systems Patterns
Knowledge of queues, workflows, caching, rate limiting, and async processing patterns
Education
Computer Science Background
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Platform Engineering Knowledge
Deep understanding of platform engineering principles and distributed systems architecture
Experience
Professional Software Engineering
5+ years of professional software engineering experience with complex system development
Cross-Functional Project Leadership
Strong track record leading complex projects with cross-functional stakeholders and technical teams
Product Judgment
Ability to balance user experience, development speed, correctness, and long-term maintainability
High-Scale Production Systems
Experience working with systems serving millions of users with high reliability requirements
Skills
Required
TypeScript
Advanced proficiency in TypeScript for both frontend and backend development
React
Expert-level React development for building complex user interfaces
Node.js
Strong backend development skills with Node.js runtime
PostgreSQL
Database design, optimization, and query performance tuning
Platform Architecture
Designing scalable platform systems that support multiple product teams
System Reliability
Building and maintaining high-availability production systems
Cross-Team Collaboration
Working effectively with product managers, designers, and engineers across teams
Technical Leadership
Leading architectural decisions and mentoring other engineers
Preferred
Redis
Nice to haveExperience with Redis for caching and session management
Temporal
Nice to haveWorkflow orchestration and distributed task processing
OAuth/SSO
Nice to haveAuthentication and authorization systems, enterprise identity management
Cloudflare
Nice to haveEdge computing and abuse protection systems
Google Cloud Platform
Nice to haveCloud infrastructure and platform services
Datadog/Sentry
Nice to haveObservability, monitoring, and error tracking systems
Statsig/Segment
Nice to haveExperimentation platforms and analytics pipelines
AI Agent Ecosystems
Nice to haveUnderstanding of MCP-style patterns, tool integrations, and structured automation
Localization
Nice to haveInternationalization and localization platform development
Tech stack
Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Tools
Other
Compensation
Pay and benefits.
Base·USD 225,000 – 320,000
Equity·Stock options
Benefits
Competitive Salary & Equity
Market-competitive base salary with significant equity participation
401(k) with 4% Match
Retirement savings program with company matching up to 4%
Health Insurance
Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage
Disability Insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance coverage
Paid Leave
Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave policies
Commuter Benefits
Transportation and commuting expense reimbursement
Monthly Wellness Stipend
Monthly allowance for health and wellness expenses
Autonomous Work Environment
Flexible work arrangements with high degree of independence
Office Setup Reimbursement
Reimbursement for in-office workspace setup and equipment
Flexible Time Off
Unlimited PTO policy plus company holidays
Team Gatherings
Quarterly team building events and company gatherings
Office Amenities
Premium office amenities and workspace benefits
Process
Interview steps.
- 01
Initial Screen
30-minute conversation with talent team covering background, motivations, and role fit
- 02
Technical Phone Screen
45-minute technical discussion covering system design concepts and platform engineering experience
- 03
Technical Deep Dive
90-minute technical interview covering distributed systems design, platform architecture, and code review
- 04
Cross-Functional Collaboration
60-minute behavioral interview focused on working with product managers, designers, and cross-functional teams
- 05
System Design Interview
75-minute system design session covering large-scale platform systems and agent infrastructure
- 06
Final Team Interview
60-minute conversation with senior engineering leadership covering technical vision and cultural fit
- 07
Reference Checks
Professional reference verification with previous managers and technical colleagues
Full posting
Original listing.
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
About The Role
As a Staff Product Engineer on Replit’s Product Platform team, you’ll build the shared product systems and primitives that power Replit’s core experiences — enabling product teams to ship faster and helping users (and agents) build better software.
The nature of software development has changed and Replit is at the forefront of that revolution. The product platform team builds and scales the primitives that Replit Agent uses to empower over 40 million users to build anything they want.
This role is ideal for a senior platform-minded web engineer who’s shipped at scale, thrives in high-ownership environments, and can define what “good” looks like across reliability, performance, and developer experience.
We’ve hit a significant scale and have escape velocity. A number of our systems need to be scaled and rebuilt, so you’ll get to build these out for 0 → 1 → huge scale quickly.
You’ll work closely with product other engineers, platform engineers, designers, product managers, and go-to-market partners to deliver foundational capabilities that unlock entire categories of product development.
This is why we require product engineers with a strong product sense and past distributed systems experience that are excited about building at scale platform primitives!
What you’ll do
Lead major cross-team platform initiatives, taking foundational systems from 0 → 1 and scaling them to support millions of users
Build shared, extensible Agent primitives that Replit Agent can reuse safely and consistently (Meta Programming)
Identify the highest-leverage technical bottlenecks (performance, reliability, correctness, abuse, observability), then design and ship solutions for our scale
Raise the bar for engineering excellence through architecture reviews, code quality, reliability standards, and mentorship
Partner across teams to improve platform adoption, ergonomics, and velocity — turning platform work into measurable outcomes
Core areas you’ll work on
Agents and Replit users depend on us to build applications (e.g. Connectors framework, Content/configuration primitives (CMS + product surfaces), Data/analytics/events + experimentation primitives).
Replit Agent as a principal in third party systems. Agent can be fully used within ChatGPT and publishes straight to the iOS app store. We’ll be doing loads of that.
Platform product teams rely on us to ship consistently (e.g. Identity & Access platform (SSO/SCIM), Localization/i18n platform, Notifications & communications platform).
Core web platform infrastructure (e.g. performance & page load optimization, observability and debugging workflows, caching strategy and reliability).
Required skills and experience
5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Understanding of the full agentic software development stack, helping coding agents build, test and review correct code.
Strong track record leading complex projects with cross-functional stakeholders
Experience building and operating platform systems that other teams depend on
Experience operating and scaling systems in production (reliability, performance, incidents, on-call readiness)
Strong product judgment: you can balance UX, speed, correctness, and long-term maintainability
Comfort working in modern web stacks such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres
Bonus points
Experience working in environments with a high engineering bar (or a fast-growing startup where you shipped fast without burning out quality)
Experience with platform and distributed systems patterns (queues, workflows, caching, rate limiting, async processing)
Familiarity with systems like:
Redis, Postgres
Workflow engines (e.g. Temporal)
Auth and enterprise identity (SSO, SCIM)
Abuse protection and edge systems (Cloudflare)
Cloud platforms (GCP)
Observability (Datadog, Sentry)
Localization
Experimentation and event pipelines (Statsig, Segment, analytics/event tracking)
Excited about the future of programming, including agent workflows and developer tools
Exposure to agent ecosystems (e.g. MCP-style patterns, tool integrations, structured automation)
Example Projects You’ll Work On
Connectors platform for agents — ship a secure connector framework (OAuth/permissions/data access) so agents can integrate with Slack/Notion/GitHub/etc.
Agent-facing external surfaces — own high-quality embedded experiences (desktop/extension/embeds) that let agents act in-context across tools
Safety + abuse controls for agent actions — design permissioning, rate limits, and policy enforcement so agents can operate safely at scale
Real-time notifications platform — design in-app/email surfaces + build reliable delivery/fanout, preferences, and observability
Core web platform performance + caching — improve latency and reliability via caching strategy (Redis), profiling, and safe fallbacks
Events + experimentation primitives — standardize tracking/metrics + feature flags/rollouts so teams can ship safely and measure impact
This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:
💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match
⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability
🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
🚗 Commuter Benefits
📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend
🧑💻 Autonomous Work Environment
🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement
🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings
☕ In Office Amenities
Want to learn more about what we are up to?
Interviewing + Culture at Replit
To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.
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