Senior Staff Engineer

Company DescriptionLinear is building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and they're shaping the tools this new era requires.Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, their team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and they're continuing to grow internationally. What unites them is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.As a small team, they're all generalists and constantly picking up new challenges. When it comes to code, they're looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it. They use TypeScript and build scalable systems so they can continuously make progress on a solid foundation. They don't expect you to have a background in everything they use, but they do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with React and TypeScript.Role DescriptionThe Senior Staff Engineer will do:Build new user-facing features with everything from database models to GraphQL resolvers and UI componentsOptimize our data synchronization stack by applying better serialization protocolsAdd real-time collaborative editing to our content editorImprove performance by profiling and tweaking virtualized list renderingAdd analytics, monitoring, and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to operational incidentsOpen-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the productRedefine best-in-class software development processes so that we can build a purpose-built productQualifications5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software companyStrong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL)Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvements and refactors) with visible impact on the productProduct sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you push back when something doesn't feel rightComfortable working without heavy PM overhead; you can help to shape the problem, not just implement a solutionHigh ownership mentality: self-directed, full-lifecycle builder who takes a feature from idea to shippedThrives in a remote, async-first environment with a lean, high-output teamExperience at a startup or a company with a genuinely high engineering barWhat they offerCompetitive salary and equityEmployee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windowsDaily meal and coffee stipend on every workdayPaid co-working space or deskHealth coverage (based on country requirements)5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays4 months paid parental leavePaid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafterRegular team events and off-sitesRemote-first with no required commuteWhat candidates should expectTechnical interviews will be conducted rather than conventional video conferencing toolsInterview process includes measures designed to help verify that candidates are representing their own experience, knowledge, and technical abilitiesCandidates are expected to demonstrate their own problem-solving and communication skills without using undisclosed AI-generated answers or unauthorized real-time interview assistanceAny potential irregularities will be reviewed in context by hiring team rather than treated as automatic evidence of misconduct