Lead Product Engineer (Developer Platform)

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Product Engineer (Developer Platform) based in France.** This role offers the opportunity to shape how developers design, deploy, operate, and scale workloads on a modern edge platform. You will own the Developer Platform experience across product strategy, architecture, prototypes, production code, APIs, documentation, and developer tooling. The position combines strong technical depth with product judgment and end-to-end ownership, without relying on traditional handoffs between product and engineering. You will lead a small engineering team while remaining hands-on and closely connected to the codebase and customer experience. Working across engineering, design, and product marketing, you will turn developer insights into intuitive and reliable platform capabilities. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous problems, mentoring engineers, and building products that developers use every day. ### Accountabilities - Design the core platform primitives developers need, including projects, environments, secrets, and logs, and ensure they work cohesively across compute, edge scripting, and database capabilities. - Shape the Developer Platform product direction from discovery through delivery, iteration, and continuous improvement. - Translate developer insights, customer needs, and market signals into clear product priorities and engineering plans. - Identify and resolve technical or product decisions that could undermine a unified and intuitive developer experience before they reach production. - Provide clarity on complex problems and establish the context needed for engineers to make effective decisions independently. - Lead a small engineering team by setting direction, developing people, providing clear feedback, and maintaining a high standard for shipped and operated systems. - Remain hands-on by contributing to prototypes, application programming interfaces (APIs), dashboards, instrumentation, documentation, and production code. - Define and measure product success, from initial deployment through adoption and expansion, and use data and learnings to guide future priorities. - Work cross-functionally with Compute, Frontend, Design, and Product Marketing teams to create a cohesive experience across the dashboard, API, command-line interface (CLI), and documentation. - Make pragmatic architectural and tooling decisions that balance experimentation speed, reliability, performance, security, cost, and customer trust. - Conduct experiments and Proofs of Concept (PoCs) where appropriate to validate technical approaches and determine whether solutions can scale. - Promote strong product thinking, technical judgment, ownership, and decision-making practices across the engineering organization. ### **Requirements** - Experience owning the full product discovery, delivery, and iteration lifecycle at meaningful scale, or demonstrated readiness to take on this level of end-to-end ownership. - Strong product judgment and the ability to turn ambiguous, complex problems into clear priorities and meaningful outcomes. - Strong technical depth and the ability to challenge solutions, evaluate trade-offs, and make production changes independently. - Comfortable working with data, including defining meaningful metrics, interpreting funnels and retention curves, and using experimentation to inform decisions. - Strong business and market awareness, including understanding Ideal Customer Profiles (ICP), pricing, competitive dynamics, revenue drivers, and how products support broader business strategy. - High standards for software quality, reliability, performance, security, and customer trust. - Proven ability to help other engineers make stronger technical and product decisions and take greater ownership. - Experience leading engineers, including setting direction, developing people, providing feedback, and creating an environment where teams can make product decisions rather than simply execute tasks. - Clear communication skills, high ownership, and a low-ego approach to collaboration. - Strong ability to work strategically while remaining comfortable getting hands-on with technical implementation. - Fluency with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and workflows, using AI thoughtfully for research, analysis, prototyping, coding, testing, and communication while maintaining accountability for quality. - Experience building developer platforms, deployment tools, or products where developer experience is a central part of the product is highly desirable. - Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and debugging workloads on comparable platforms is a plus. - Ability to engage directly with customers as comfortably as working deeply with technology. - Strong systems thinking, with the ability to understand how individual features, products, technical systems, and teams fit together. - Ability to work effectively in a distributed European environment, ideally within approximately three hours of Central European Time (CET). ### **Benefits** - 100% flexible working hours. - Remote-first working model with the freedom to work from anywhere. - Three-night voucher for visiting the company headquarters. - Worldwide medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage. - 25 vacation days, plus one additional loyalty day per year up to a maximum of 5 additional days, on top of local public holidays. - Meeting-free Thursdays to support uninterrupted deep work. - €500 annual home office budget. - Paid sick leave. - Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non-birthing parents, with top-up provisions where local statutory benefits are lower. - Annual in-person team gathering. - Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP), starting with 0.01% equity. - Mental health resources and support through BetterHelp. - €480 annual wellness budget. - €500 annual educational budget for books, seminars, courses, and other learning opportunities. - Annual Apple Music, Spotify, or YouTube Premium subscription. - Opportunity to work on developer infrastructure and products used by a global developer community. - Significant autonomy, technical ownership, and opportunities to influence product direction.