Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DefenseStorm is hiring a Lead Product Engineer (SDE3) to lead product engineering for the GRID platform. The role combines hands-on software development with technical leadership, including shaping customer-focused solutions, guiding AI agents through implementation, setting technical direction, managing delivery risks, and coaching engineers.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Design, engineering, and customer-facing teams to shape solutions and influence product direction
- Identify dependencies and delivery risks, unblock the team, and communicate changes to commitments early
- Break initiatives into small, independently deliverable increments for agent execution and rapid feedback
- Own complex solutions from discovery through production delivery and customer validation
- Set technical direction, review designs, and make sound decisions about architecture, security, reliability, and maintainability
- Direct AI agents through implementation, testing, debugging, and refinement
- Coach engineers and raise the team’s quality and consistency through feedback, mentorship, and shared practices
- Encourage constructive debate, help the team reach decisions, and create accountability for executing them
- Other duties as assigned by management
Skills
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field
- 7+ years of experience building and maintaining production software systems
- 2+ years of experience operating as a Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, Staff Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role
- A demonstrated record of owning complex initiatives from an ambiguous problem through production delivery
- Experience setting technical direction, making architectural decisions, managing delivery risks, and mentoring engineers without relying on formal authority
- Strong product judgment and the ability to turn customer and business problems into precise specifications and measurable acceptance criteria
- Practical experience using AI agents across implementation, testing, and debugging
- Strong engineering fundamentals to evaluate architecture, data flow, tests, edge cases, and security
- Clear communication, sound judgment, collaborative instincts, and a record of delivering on commitments
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