Senior Product Engineer

Prefect builds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms -- Prefect OSS , Prefect Cloud , FastMCP OSS, and Horizon -- used for mission-critical workloads. Our Vision: Prefect will define automation for the context era. Our Mission: Curate an intelligent context layer that delivers the right information at the right time. Our remote first company is singularly focused on this vision and mission, and every team member directly contributes to their advancement. We've carefully created a supportive, high-performance culture - the operating system of our company - that empowers our team to do the best work of their careers and achieve their personal and professional aspirations. Our company operates both open-source and commercial offerings, partnering with Fortune 500 companies, data innovators, and fast-growing digitally native startups. We are looking for folks who want to join a remote-first team #LI-Remote to continue building an equally amazing company, product, and developer community. Role Summary Prefect is defining automation for the context era. We build the infrastructure that powers 100K+ mission-critical workflows every minute, and our mission is to curate the context layer that delivers the right information to AI systems at the right time. We're hiring senior product engineers to keep building it. This is a product engineering role. You'll own features end to end, from understanding the user problem to designing the flow to shipping working code backed by solid full-stack implementation. There's no dedicated PM at Prefect. Engineers on these teams are the product owners. You'll stay close to customers, develop a sharp read on the orchestration and AI tooling markets, partner with other product engineers and Prefect's leadership, and make the product calls along the way. You'll report to one of Prefect's Directors of Engineering. What You'll Do Own end-to-end product features. From user problem to design to shipped code. You define what "done" looks like. Make product calls. Without a dedicated PM in the room, you decide what to build, what to defer, and what good enough looks like for now. Build for production. Backend systems, APIs, and the UI needed to make them usable. Think about durability, performance, and the long-term shape of what you're building. Be a constant presence with customers. Run discovery calls, listen in on support, watch how people actually use what you've shipped, turn what you learn into the next thing. Stay close to the markets we're in. Know where they're going, not just where they are. Form and defend opinions. Ship with AI tooling at the core of your workflow. Claude Code, Codex, background agents, evals, and the broader stack. Bring opinions about plan review, PR review of agent-authored code, and where humans should stay in the loop. Participate in on-call and incident response. Help maintain production reliability standards. Your Qualifications 5+ years of fullstack engineering experience, with demonstrated success shipping production systems you helped shape, not just implement. Comfort owning the product. You've talked to customers, made the calls, and shipped things where you defined the problem and the solution. Strong fullstack chops in either Python or TypeScript. Distributed systems, comfort with whatever databases and infra a feature demands. You can speak to scaling stories, schema decisions, and the tradeoffs you've made. Real fluency with AI development tools. You've already shipped meaningful work with Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent, and you can speak to where these tools earn their keep and where they don't. Track record of shipping in high-ambiguity, early-stage environments. Comfortable with incomplete information and fast iteration. Equally comfortable shipping a rough prototype to test an idea and hardening production code that users depend on. Self-directed with strong judgment. You identify problems, propose solutions, and ship, while keeping the team aligned through clear communication. What You'll Get in Return: Base Salary Ranges: San Francisco Bay Area & NYC Metro: $194,000-$242,000 Washington D.C., Boston, LA Metro, Seattle: $176,000-$221,000 Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, & all other U.S. metros: $172,000-$214,000 Actual base salary within each range depends on the candidate's location, experience, and qualifications. Please keep in mind that equity and benefits are not included in the range provided above. Your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Perks and Benefits: We take care of our team—our benefits are top-notch so that employees can work comfortably from wherever in the world they call home. Check out some of our most exciting benefits offered below. Remote-first team with flexible-first culture Equity Stock Options 401(k) with 5% company match (vests immediately!) Unlimited PTO Medical, Dental and Vision insurance Generous Parental Leave Life Insurance and Disability benefits $800 remote work stipend for whatever you need to work (food, wellness, equipment etc.) Great builders deserve great tools—we provide access to Claude Code, Codex, and other leading AI tools so you can ship faster and focus on hard problems. And that is just the start, there's more! For more info check out our top-of-the-line benefits and perks on our careers page. Belongingness at Prefect: Belongingness at Prefect is our commitment to ensuring mutual power, access, and opportunity among all groups and individuals who make up our community. We operationalize belongingness through actions large and small on a daily basis, but always with the goal that all groups and individuals can contribute as their most authentic self to the evolution of our product, our team, and our community. Belongingness is also our commitment to bridge with individuals or groups not yet established in our community, acknowledge differences in a way that affirms distinct identities, and allows for a new, more expansive group identity to form. Equal Opportunity at Prefect: Prefect is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity/expression), national origin, disability or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Brad is a real live person (👋🏻) and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application.