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# Lead Cloud Product Engineer

- **Company:** Radiant
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), User Authentication, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Programming Tools, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Cloud Platform System, Backend, Kubernetes, Web Technologies, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/lead-cloud-product-engineer-radiant-10434626

## About the Role

* Strong software engineering experience, ideally in cloud platforms, developer tooling, infrastructure products, or SaaS.
 * Strong experience with APIs, backend systems, and modern web technologies.
 * Good understanding of:
 + Cloud infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, containers, Kubernetes
 + Developer tooling: APIs, SDKs, CLIs, web consoles
 + Platform engineering: authentication, permissions, observability, automation
 * Comfortable working across the stack where needed, from backend services and integrations to lightweight frontend experiences.
 * Comfortable moving quickly from an ambiguous customer problem to a working prototype or production implementation.
 * Strong communication skills and comfortable working directly with product teams and customers.

What you bring:

 * Builder mindset: You prefer proving ideas with working software.
 * Product sense: You care about usability and customer outcomes, not just technical correctness.
 * Technical breadth: You can work across APIs, platform services, infrastructure, and user-facing experiences.
 * Customer empathy: You understand where developers and operators experience friction.
 * Speed and ownership: You can take an idea from discovery through prototype, delivery, and iteration.

## Description

As a Lead Cloud Product Engineer, you will work at the intersection of product, software engineering, and cloud infrastructure, helping turn platform capabilities into simple, high-quality customer experiences.

You'll work across APIs, SDKs, developer tooling, workflows, platform services, integrations, and user-facing product experiences, partnering closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, SRE, and customers.

This is a hands-on role focused on rapidly prototyping, validating, and shipping product capabilities that make Radiant's cloud platform easier to use, integrate with, and operate., * Build and prototype product features, workflows, APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling.

 * Work closely with Product to turn customer needs into working technical solutions and product experiences.
 * Develop integrations across compute, storage, networking, identity, billing, and platform services.
 * Improve developer experience, self-service, onboarding, and time-to-value.
 * Work directly with customers and internal teams to identify friction and validate solutions.
 * Support product discovery with technical prototypes, demos, experiments, and proof-of-concepts.
 * Help define technical requirements, documentation, examples, and best practices.
 * Take successful prototypes through to production-quality implementation where appropriate.