Senior Software Engineer (AI) - Remote

Overview

At Linear, we are on a mission to bring magic back to software. To empower product teams to do their best work, we are building an issue tracking and project management tool that combines UI elegance with world-class performance.

In Short

• Build AI-powered product features that feel native, fast, and delightful to use
• Work with product and design to prototype and iterate on intelligent workflows and user interactions
• Design backend services to power natural language interfaces, smart suggestions, agentic workloads, and more
• Optimize prompts, fine-tune model behavior, and evaluate performance
• Help to guide our agent platform, allowing third parties to bring agents into the core Linear experience as teammates.
• Contribute to the architecture for AI-integration infrastructure that’s reliable and privacy-aware

Requirements

• Experience in building and deploying AI systems to production
• Proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js for backend services
• Familiarity with GraphQL APIs and WebSocket-based real-time sync
• Knowledge of public and private AI models; temporal for async workloads
• Experience with Postgres, Redis, and Turbopuffer for storage and caching
• Experience with cloud hosting, particularly Google Cloud with Kubernetes

Benefits

• Interesting and challenging work
• Work-life balance
• Competitive salary and equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)
• Paid lunch and coffee during workdays
• Work remotely, no commuting to the office
• Paid co-working space/desk at an office
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
• Regular team events and off-sites
• 5 weeks of paid vacation
• 4 months of paid parental leave