Product Engineer

Product Engineers at Kernel are full-stack engineers who think about the product as much as the code. You know how to translate your strong product instincts into code, from pixel-level UI decisions to backend API design. You don't wait for a spec, you help write it.

You'll work closely with our co-founders to set product direction, ship full-stack features end-to-end, and make Kernel feel as polished as it is powerful.

- Own the full-stack implementation of user-facing product surfaces: dashboard, onboarding, website, and core product

- Shape the product roadmap by synthesizing customer feedback, usage patterns, and your own instincts about what developers need

- Drive DX improvements across our SDK, docs, CLI, and API. The kind of details that make developers say "this just works"

- Ship fast and iterate, from prototype to production with minimal hand-holding

- Help define what it means to build a great developer product at Kernel

- You ship end-to-end: you're comfortable owning a feature from frontend to backend and getting it across the finish line

- You have product taste: you've thought hard about what makes developer tools feel magical vs. frustrating, and that thinking shows up in your work

- Startup experience: you've built fast, worn multiple hats, and figured things out without a playbook

- You build for developers deploying agents into the real world

- You have strong opinions about devEx and API design, and you know how to back them up with shipped work

- Default async with minimal bureaucracy, only two meetings a week