Growth Engineer
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
About Speakeasy
Speakeasy began in the developer tooling space by building a toolchain for powering API developer experience. With the rise of AI and since the launch of MCP we have expanded into helping teams build secure observe and distribute AI tools across their organization.
Our customers today include leading tech companies and fortune 100 enterprises such as Mistral AI Vercel PlanetScale Verizon and Docusign.
We were founded in 2021 and have already hit important revenue milestones. We have raised funding from top-notch VC and angel investors who share our vision and have significant runway remaining.
Our team is split between San Francisco and London with offices in both locations. We work best together in person. This role is based in our San Francisco office four days a week with one day remote. We meet up and spend a week together roughly every quarter.
About the role
Were hiring a Growth Engineer to sit at the intersection of engineering and marketing. This is an early-career role built for someone who can write code and write words and wants to use both to drive how a technical product gets discovered understood and adopted.
Youll work directly with engineering to understand what were building then use that knowledge to create content run experiments build launch assets and grow our presence with developers and technical leaders. Youre not a traditional marketer youre someone who thinks like an engineer but wants to have an outsized impact on how the product reaches the world.
What matters most is attitude. We want someone who ships before they feel ready learns from what doesnt work and keeps going. Youll have real ownership from day one. If youre the kind of person who gets an idea on a Tuesday and has something live by Thursday this role is for you.
This role is ideal for a recent CS grad or early-career engineer whos curious about the business side of software and wants a path that combines technical depth with creative and strategic work.
What youll own
Technical content creation: blog posts deep-dives code examples launch announcements and documentation-style explainers
Growth experiments: building and testing ideas for how we acquire activate and retain developers
Social media and community presence for product launches and ongoing developer storytelling
Launch assets end-to-end: from announcement blog to website updates to sales collateral
Sales and customer-facing enablement: decks battlecards demo scripts and competitive positioning
Close collaboration with engineering to understand the product deeply and surface what matters to a technical audience
Customer and prospect research to sharpen positioning and identify messages that resonate with technical leaders
What were looking for
A CS degree or equivalent engineering background you can read and write code follow architecture discussions and go deep on technical concepts
Fluency with coding assistants (Claude Code Cursor Copilot etc.) and a habit of using them to move faster
Strong writing skills technical writing engineering blog posts documentation or anything that shows you can make complex ideas clear
Genuine interest in developer tools APIs or AI products. You follow the space and have opinions about it
Comfort working autonomously in a fast-moving environment with broad scope and no playbook
A bias toward action. Youd rather ship something imperfect and learn than wait for the perfect plan
Genuine curiosity and a hunger to learn fast. Youre comfortable not knowing things as long as youre figuring them out
Low ego high output. Youre happy to do whatever it takes to move the needle
Nice to have
Prior internship or work experience in engineering growth or developer relations
Experience with design tools (Figma) and basic video/motion work
Background contributing to technical open-source projects or developer communities
Any prior exposure to marketing growth experiments or analytics
Benefits
Salary Range $160K - $190K
Generous equity
100% employer-covered medical dental and vision insurance
401(k) plan
Unlimited PTO
Lunch provided in office from some of the best restaurants in San Francisco!
Annual off-sites with the entire team (previous locations: 2024 - Lisbon 2025 - Mexico City 2026 - Madrid!)
Work with a fun collaborative ambitious team
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Create great integration experiences for your APIs: native-language SDKs, Terraform providers, and friction-free docs.