Kernel

Product Engineer

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6 months ago
Cincinnati, OH, USA +3 moreSenior

Base Salary

$175k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own customer outcomes and product metrics.
  • Implement user-facing full-stack features across Kernel’s core product and new product lines.
  • Shape the product roadmap using customer feedback, usage patterns, and product judgment.
  • Improve developer experience across the SDK, documentation, CLI, and API.
  • Ship and iterate quickly from prototype through production with minimal hand-holding.
  • Help define and build a high-quality developer product at Kernel.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated focus on customer outcomes, customer empathy, and meaningful metrics.
  • Ability to own features end-to-end across frontend and backend.
  • Strong product taste and judgment for developer tools.
  • Startup experience, including shipping quickly and working across multiple responsibilities.
  • Experience building for developers deploying agents in the real world.
  • Strong opinions and shipped work related to developer experience and API design.

Benefits

  • Industry-competitive salary and above-market equity.
  • Premium medical and dental coverage, including dependent coverage.
  • Small, trusting team of senior and staff engineers.
  • Default async work with minimal bureaucracy and two meetings per week.
  • $1,000 per month budget for LLM usage fees.
  • Daily lunches provided.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Relocation assistance.
  • Hiring process includes a 30-minute founder call, a 45-minute virtual technical interview, and a half-day virtual or in-person onsite.

Categories

Product Engineering
Kernel

About Kernel

51-200 employees
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