Staff Product Engineer
About The Position
We build the open-source stack teams use to run coding agents at scale. Three repos under github.com/gastownhall: beads, the work graph that agents and humans share (~26k stars); gastown (~17k); and gascity, agent orchestration. We're taking Beads and Gas City to the cloud. The commercial side is Gasworks: the hosted control plane teams use to run agent fleets without babysitting them. If you know our open-source stack, imagine that as the agentic platform for a team or an organization. Over the last six months we’ve talked to customers, held workshops, and started design partnerships. Now we're scaling the team and the product toward revenue. You are one of our first engineering hires, and you own the product those customers actually see, touch, and pay for. (We're also hiring a Founding Platform Engineer — more infrastructure-oriented — and a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer — more customer-oriented. Exceptional candidates have experience across all of these areas.) What the job actually is You own large slices of the system, end to end. Not "contribute to." Own: you pick the approach, you ship it, you operate it, you answer for it. Beads Team Server. The shared work graph, and the human-facing operating surface around it. A team system: one store, many agents and humans writing concurrently; project and identity boundaries; agent and API access; provisioning; and a view that makes the state legible — what is running, what is blocked, what merged, what changed, and what it cost. Hosted Gas City. Now do the same for agent orchestration: what's running, what's stuck, and how to get more out of each token. The open-source queue. We are stewards of the OSS repos, and we intend our commercial products to be built on top of the community's work rather than beside it. You'll be a maintainer, representing the needs of the community and the compatibility of those needs with our roadmap. We are a small, flat organization. You work 1:1 with me (Julian, CTO) and with everyone else at the company. We all wear multiple hats and push toward the same goal.
Requirements
- Strong in Go.
- Comfortable designing and debugging systems where state, concurrency, and failure matter (transactions and migrations, idempotency, retries and fencing, reconciliation loops, process and session lifecycle, observability).
- Willingness to operate what you ship.
- Experience in storage engines, SQL, Dolt, backups, API contracts OR Kubernetes, controllers, runtimes, scheduling, SRE.
- Ability to cross the boundary between storage/runtime and reliability areas.
- Experience using coding agents with real leverage.
- Ability to verify agent output, find edge cases, and articulate uncertainties.
- Sufficient architectural experience to understand stack design.
- Product taste to make a control plane feel obvious.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States.
- Do not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Nice To Haves
- Experience across Beads, Gas Town, or Gas City.
- Experience with Rust and TypeScript/React.
- Experience with a particular cloud vendor.
- Experience with Rust.
Responsibilities
- Own large slices of the system, end to end.
- Pick the approach, ship it, operate it, and answer for it.
- Manage the Beads Team Server, including the shared work graph and human-facing operating surface.
- Develop a team system with concurrent agent and human writing, project and identity boundaries, agent and API access, provisioning, and legible state views.
- Manage Hosted Gas City for agent orchestration, focusing on what's running, what's stuck, and optimizing token usage.
- Act as a maintainer for the open-source queue, representing community needs and ensuring compatibility with the roadmap.
- Work 1:1 with the CTO and other team members in a small, flat organization.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% of premiums covered for employee, 50% for dependents).
- 401(k) starting Jan 1, 2027.
- Standard tech PTO plus company holidays.
- Home-office and equipment budget.
- Annual learning and conference budget.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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