Senior Member of Technical Staff, Product Engineering
About The Position
Pallet is hiring a Product Engineer to help build its AI platform for automating back-office operations in logistics. The role bridges customers and engineering: you will understand enterprise clients’ operational needs, customize solutions, and turn those needs into reliable, scalable product capabilities. You will work with founders and cross-functional teams to shape both the product and its deployment in real-world logistics environments. As an early Product Engineer, you will have meaningful influence over product direction and own work from idea through deployment. You will build core product features for AI agents operating in parallel, develop data pipelines and backend systems, and help establish the standards for product engineering at Pallet. The position is full-time and onsite five days per week in San Francisco’s Financial District or at the New York City satellite office.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience, with deeper architectural ownership and a focus on system quality and long-term maintainability.
- Strong backend and systems engineering fundamentals.
- Experience owning core product or infrastructure in a SaaS or platform environment.
- Focus on reliability, performance, and architecture in addition to shipping.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, in-person startup environment.
- Willingness to work in the office five days per week in San Francisco’s Financial District or the New York City satellite office.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, or GraphQL.
Responsibilities
- Build and own core product features that power AI agents solving logistics problems.
- Translate customer and business needs into reliable, scalable software, acting as a link between engineering and customers.
- Design and implement data pipelines and backend systems that can scale from hundreds to millions of users.
- Ship end-to-end features in a SaaS environment.
- Collaborate with the engineering team on architecture, product decisions, and technical direction.
- Help define product engineering practices as an early team member.
Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental benefits.
- Take-what-you-need paid vacation.
- Life insurance and accidental insurance.
- Short-term disability coverage.
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 401(k) option.
- Paid parental leave.
- Yearly learning and development stipend.
- Commuter benefits for Bay Area and New York employees.
- Uber ride stipend for late office work.
- Remote-office home stipend for remote employees.
- Free professional headshot.
- Daily catered lunches and dinners in the office.
- Complimentary onsite gym at the San Francisco office.
- Monthly happy hours.
- Annual company offsites.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
