Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Linear, a fully remote company building an issue tracking and project management tool, as an API engineer. You will take ownership of building and evolving APIs powering Linear, collaborating with various teams to ensure performant, reliable, and secure data flows. You'll improve the developer platform with well-documented APIs and shape the API surface for AI agent interaction. This is foundational work defining an emerging interaction model. Linear offers competitive salary and equity, employee-friendly equity terms, paid lunch and coffee, remote work, paid co-working space, health, dental, and vision insurance (US), regular team events, 5 weeks of paid vacation, and 4 months of paid parental leave.

Requirements

Solid backend engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Take ownership, build, and evolve the APIs that power all of Linear, from frontend features to public developer access
• Collaborate with product engineers, design, and infrastructure to deliver performant, reliable, and secure data flows
• Improve our developer platform with well-documented, discoverable, and stable APIs
• Shape the API surface that AI agents will use to interact with Linear, enabling autonomous workflows and real-time decision-making

Benefits

• 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