Product Engineer

About the role

ABOUT KREA

At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools.

We're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium. We recently took this a step forward with the launch of Krea 2 https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-image-model, our first foundation model, built completely from scratch for aesthetic diversity and stylistic control, and with Krea 3 https://www.krea.ai/blog/introducing-krea-3 - our new image editing model.

We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.

THIS ROLE

We're looking for a product engineer to help take sub-products already driving significant revenue and make them more robust, while shipping new product surfaces for our creative users. You'd work primarily in SvelteKit (React experience also fine), touching Postgres/Redis/ClickHouse, with occasional reach into Python ML inference on GPU clusters and our multi-cloud k8s setup as needed.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build real-time collaboration and canvas tooling (e.g. WebGL2/WebGPU for our node-based tools & CRDTs)

- Ship durable execution for long-running workflows and public APIs (OpenAPI docs auto-generated from Zod schemas)

- Reach into Python ML inference on GPU clusters and our multi-cloud k8s setup as features require it

- Own cross-service metrics, tracing, and observability for the features you ship

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 4+ years of experience, ideally with 1+ years contributing to a product with millions of users

- Real, significant Svelte or React experience - this isn't a pure-backend role

- Strong first-principles thinking and product sense over attachment to any specific framework

- Comfort owning things end-to-end, from idea to shipped, measured impact

- Clear written and verbal communication

- Taste - a strong, well-developed point of view on what good creative work looks like

Nice to have

- Python/PyTorch or GPU-backed ML inference experience

- A creative background (design, art, architecture, or similar)

OUR STACK

- SvelteKit, TypeScript, Python, Postgres (AWS Aurora), Redis, ClickHouse, Docker, Kubernetes, FluxCD

WHAT WE OFFER

- Team: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling

- Impact: Significant scope and company-wide impact

- Competitive compensation: generous salary & equity packages