Leads and scales the engineering organisation, setting technical strategy and delivery standards while building strong leaders and ensuring complex AI infrastructure is reliable, secure, and production-ready.
Engineering Lead, US
๐ Description
- Establish Namespaceโs US engineering presence and set a high bar for engineering quality, product thinking, and execution.
- Build and lead a small team of high-performing engineers.
- Partner with product, design, and leadership to turn company goals into technical direction and execution plans.
- Bridge the US team with European colleagues, users, product strategy, and engineering.
- Own and ship end-to-end features and integrations for popular developer tools.
- Work with users and partners to improve product usability, adoption, performance, and reliability.
๐ ๏ธ Requirements
- Leadership and management skills to lead high performing ICs
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience building production-grade software in languages like TypeScript/JavaScript (React), Go, Python, or similar
- Proven track record shipping impactful product features, preferably for developer-focused or infrastructure products
- Customer-centric mindset with the ability to translate complex technical solutions into intuitive user experiences
- Enthusiasm for continuous learning and a collaborative approach to product development
โจ Benefits
- We pride ourselves in being a small team of experts that can achieve a lot.
- We balance our long-term vision with short-term pragmatism.
- We believe in being fully transparent internally on how decisions are made, on how the company is doing, and we use that information to drive our decisions.
Full job description
Join our mission
We're proud to work with many incredible companies, accelerating their ability to build their products.
We've spent years watching talented engineering teams lose momentum to the same frustrating bottleneck: waiting. Waiting for CI to finish. Waiting for builds to complete. Waiting for tests to run.
After experiencing this pain firsthand at companies of every size, we set out to build the developer infrastructure platform we'd always wanted to use. Something that would seamlessly integrate with our workflows and the tools teams already loveโbut make everything dramatically faster and more cost-effective.
Today, we're already accelerating hundreds of companies around the world, helping them ship features instead of waiting for infrastructure. We've built something that feels almost magical in its simplicity: change your runs-on line, mount your toolchain cache directory and suddenly your builds are 5x faster.
About the role
Namespace's approach is low-friction, designed for immediate integration into existing developer toolchains, empowering teams to experience tangible results within just five minutes. With an end-to-end stack optimized for high performanceโincluding compute, memory, storage, and networkingโNamespace delivers capabilities and efficiencies unmatched by traditional cloud providers.
As the Product Engineering Lead for Namespace in the US, you'll establish the US presence for Namespace. Apart from building a high performing team, you'll also lead technical decisions and develop products that significantly enhance developer productivity. You'll build intuitive, performant user-facing applications and integrations that seamlessly fit into developers' existing workflows, directly impacting their ability to ship faster and more efficiently.
What you'll do
Serve as the first technical leader for our US presence, setting a high bar for engineering quality, product thinking, and execution
Start, build, and lead a small engineering team in the US
Partner closely with product, design, and leadership to translate company goals into clear technical direction and execution plans
Act as a bridge between the team in Europe, users, product strategy, and engineering, ensuring we build the right things and build them well
Help shape the long-term technical and organizational foundations for scaling product engineering
Own and ship end-to-end features that integrate seamlessly with popular developer tools
Develop user-facing applications that make powerful infrastructure intuitive and accessible to developers
Collaborate directly with users and partners to deeply understand their workflows, pain points, and product needs
Continuously iterate on product design and implementation to drive adoption, performance, and reliability
What we're looking for
Leadership and management skills to lead high performing ICs
Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience building production-grade software in languages like TypeScript/JavaScript (React), Go, Python, or similar
Proven track record shipping impactful product features, preferably for developer-focused or infrastructure products
Customer-centric mindset with the ability to translate complex technical solutions into intuitive user experiences
Enthusiasm for continuous learning and a collaborative approach to product development
You can expect:
Competitive salary and stock options
Flexible working hours
Market-leading parental leave
Life at Namespace Labs:
We pride ourselves in being a small team of experts that can achieve a lot.
We balance our long-term vision with short-term pragmatism.
We believe in being fully transparent internally on how decisions are made, on how the company is doing, and we use that information to drive our decisions.
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