Lead Product Engineer

About the role

We are hiring for a Lead Product Engineer to help shape the technical foundation of Workbrew as we scale. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys building systems directly, while also guiding engineering practices, architecture decisions, and technical direction across the organization.

This role is ideal for an engineer who naturally alternates between writing production code, reviewing architectural tradeoffs, mentoring other engineers, and raising the overall quality bar of a product engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example. Operate as a player/coach who contributes directly to product development while helping the engineering organization make thoughtful technical decisions.
• Own architectural direction. Design systems and technical patterns that balance speed, reliability, scalability, and operational simplicity.
• Raise engineering standards through example. Introduce and reinforce best practices around testing, observability, deployment workflows, documentation, and code review culture.
• Bring security into the development process from the beginning. Help shape secure-by-default engineering practices across infrastructure, application development, authentication, authorization, and software supply chain security.
• Mentor engineers through collaboration. Pair on difficult problems, review design proposals, and help teammates grow in technical judgment and execution.

Requirements

• You have at least 8 years professional, full-time software engineering experience, including experience leading technical direction for complex systems.
• You are deeply hands-on and still enjoy writing and shipping production code.
• You have experience acting as a technical lead, staff engineer, principal engineer, or similar player/coach role.
• You have strong architectural judgment and know how to balance pragmatism with long-term maintainability.
• You have experience building secure systems and integrating security practices into engineering workflows.
• You hold, or have equivalent knowledge to, a major security certification such as CISSP, CCSP, OSCP, or similar.
• You communicate clearly in written form and are comfortable collaborating asynchronously.
• Security-minded approach to the software development lifecycle, including threat modeling, risk management, infrastructure and cloud security, data production and privacy, and vendor and supply chain security
• Strong point of view on the AI/emerging technology security landscape

Benefits

• For full-time employees, we offer:
• - Unlimited PTO: We care about outcomes, not hours.
• - Generous equity package: Workbrew is a seed-stage startup that is growing, and we want employees to share in that success.
• - Annual Summit: the Workbrew Crew meets in-person once a year.
• For United States employees, we offer:
• - Healthcare, vision, and dental through Thatch with a 70/30 employer/employee split.
• - 401k with a full match up to 3% of salary, and 50% match towards the next 2% of salary.
• For United Kingdom employees, we offer:
• - Statutory contributions towards pension
• - Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) stock option scheme available

Workbrew is an equal opportunity employer.