Product Engineer
Artie
San Francisco, CA · $150k–$250k a year · Posted March 2, 2026
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About the job
ABOUT ARTIE
Artie is a fully-managed real-time data streaming platform that replicates production databases into data warehouses and lakes - in real time, with zero maintenance. We make high-volume data replication simple, reliable, and scalable for engineering teams.
Our platform powers mission-critical use cases including fraud and risk monitoring, inventory visibility, customer-facing analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
We’re trusted by teams like Substack, Alloy, and ClickUp, and raised a Series A from top-tier investors including Standard Capital, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Pathlight, and the founders of Dropbox and Mode.
Artie is built for engineers who care about performance, reliability, and operational simplicity - and we’re growing fast.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're a small, dynamic team based in San Francisco, and we're looking for a Product Engineer to join us. In this in-person role, you'll have the opportunity to wear multiple hats, interact directly with our customers, and play a vital part in shaping the future of our product.
This is a challenging and dynamic role where you'll be working at the forefront of distributed systems, infrastructure and data engineering.
What you should expect and examples of day-day tasks:
- Talking to customers (who are technical and have an engineering background) to streamline their workflows and improve the UX of our product
- Building new features into our product such as column exclusion, encryption, schema change alerts and more
- Improving our internal tooling and build automation to make it easier to ship features and manage our infrastructure
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Strong fundamentals in computer science or related field
- 4+ years of experience with web development and working at startups
- Pragmatic and care more about building the right thing vs. being right
- Comfortable jumping around the stack and wearing different hats
- Someone that is passionate about building products that are easy to use and extensible
- Proficiency writing in Go is preferred, but not necessary
- Happy to work in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco’s Financial District with the rest of the team.
TECH STACK
- Frontend: TypeScript (React and Material UI)
- Backend: Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch
- Infra: Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm on GCP and AWS
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- $150K–$250K base salary, depending on experience
- Competitive equity package
- Healthcare, 401(k), unlimited PTO
- Lunch & dinner provided
- Visa sponsorship available