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Staff Software Engineer, Product
Software Engineer
• Principal
• Remote
• Full-time
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Americas Remote, EU/EMEA
Customer.io is looking for a staff product engineer who thinks like a product owner and ships like an engineer. The role covers problems from framing through launch and iteration, across the full stack.
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Responsibilities
- ▹Own important, ambiguous problems from initial framing through launch and iteration
- ▹Set direction, align partners, and stay accountable for the result
- ▹Partner with product, design, and data to shape priorities, scope the work, and define how success is measured
- ▹Lead technical decisions across the stack, including architecture, performance, reliability, and maintainability
- ▹Lead work across teams and systems, resolve technical disagreements
- ▹Improve engineering practices through mentorship, reusable patterns, and clear technical guidance
- ▹Use AI in your engineering work with sound judgment and review its output
- ▹Test new workflows, share what works, and identify automation opportunities
- ▹Participate in an on-call rotation
Requirements
- ▹Track record of leading complex work across teams or systems with meaningful customer, business, or engineering outcomes
- ▹Strong backend engineering experience and the ability to work across the stack
- ▹Strong product and technical judgment, especially when the path forward is unclear
- ▹Ability to influence experienced peers without formal authority
- ▹Experience using metrics, experimentation, and observability to guide decisions
Soft skills
End-to-end ownershipComfort in ambiguityCustomer-first thinkingHealthy skepticism of the way things are doneForce multiplication
About the company
Over 9,000 companies use the Customer.io platform to send billions of emails, push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS every day, driven by real-time behavioral data. The stack is Go, React, and AI.
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