Senior / Staff Product Engineer

As a small team, we’re all generalists that work across the full stack (built in Typescript end-to-end). We’re looking for experienced engineers that thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility to help us build the future of product development.

Location & work mode

Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in the US and Europe. You can work from anywhere within these regions. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel.

What you'll do

• Work closely with founders and design to implement new concepts and ideas

• Build AI-powered functionality into the core of Linear

• Update our realtime collaborative content editor used across all internal surfaces

• Build new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components

• Obsessively improve application performance

• Refine our software development processes to keep the team operating at high velocity

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company

• Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL)

• Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvements and refactors) with visible impact on the product

• Product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you push back when something doesn't feel right

• Comfortable working without heavy PM overhead; you can help to shape the problem, not just implement a solution

• High ownership mentality: self-directed, full-lifecycle builder who takes a feature from idea to shipped

• Thrives in a remote, async-first environment with a lean, high-output team

• Experience at a startup or a company with a genuinely high engineering bar

Our tech

This stack reflects the systems we build and operate. You’re not expected to have experience with everything listed, but you should be excited to work close to product, performance, and real-world scale.

• Agentic workload system utilizing temporal, operating at production scale

• Proprietary websocket data sync framework built for speed and offline support

• React, MobX, styled-components on the frontend

• Extensive, widely used, GraphQL API and SDK

• Node, Postgres, Temporal, and Redis in the backend

• Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s

• GitHub, Slack, Notion

• Competitive salary and equity

• Paid co-working space or desk

• Health coverage (based on country requirements)

• 4 months paid parental leave

• Regular team events and off-sites

• Remote-first with no required commute

Compensation

For US-based candidates, the expected cash compensation range for this role is $240,000—$320,000. For sales roles, this range represents on-target earnings (OTE), including base salary and variable compensation; for all other roles, it represents base salary. Final compensation is determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. For sales roles, actual earnings vary based on sales performance. Equity is a meaningful part of all offers at Linear.

Learn how we think and work

• Read Me a story about our mission

• Why and how we do work trials Linear blog post

• How we use AI in design feature of Linear's design team

• Scaling our real-time sync engine talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite