Senior Product Engineer, Product Platform

Senior Product Engineer · Senior · Full Time

Foster City, CA (Hybrid) In office M,W,FUSD 225k – 320k5mo ago
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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 have

    Experience with Redis for caching and session management

  • Temporal

    Nice to have

    Workflow orchestration and distributed task processing

  • OAuth/SSO

    Nice to have

    Authentication and authorization systems, enterprise identity management

  • Cloudflare

    Nice to have

    Edge computing and abuse protection systems

  • Google Cloud Platform

    Nice to have

    Cloud infrastructure and platform services

  • Datadog/Sentry

    Nice to have

    Observability, monitoring, and error tracking systems

  • Statsig/Segment

    Nice to have

    Experimentation platforms and analytics pipelines

  • AI Agent Ecosystems

    Nice to have

    Understanding of MCP-style patterns, tool integrations, and structured automation

  • Localization

    Nice to have

    Internationalization and localization platform development

Tech stack

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptSQL

Frameworks

ReactNode.js

Databases

PostgreSQLRedis

Tools

TemporalDatadogSentryCloudflareStatsigSegment

Other

Google Cloud PlatformOAuthSSO/SCIMMCP Patterns

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.

  1. 01

    Initial Screen

    30-minute conversation with talent team covering background, motivations, and role fit

  2. 02

    Technical Phone Screen

    45-minute technical discussion covering system design concepts and platform engineering experience

  3. 03

    Technical Deep Dive

    90-minute technical interview covering distributed systems design, platform architecture, and code review

  4. 04

    Cross-Functional Collaboration

    60-minute behavioral interview focused on working with product managers, designers, and cross-functional teams

  5. 05

    System Design Interview

    75-minute system design session covering large-scale platform systems and agent infrastructure

  6. 06

    Final Team Interview

    60-minute conversation with senior engineering leadership covering technical vision and cultural fit

  7. 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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