Esri

Sr. Product Engineer - Web Services

Esri$93K — $159K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in a product-focused role like Product Engineer or Product Manager
  • Strong Agile software development experience
  • In-depth knowledge of web services and APIs, especially RESTful services
  • Familiarity with ArcGIS technologies such as ArcGIS Hub and REST APIs
  • Understanding of cloud-native service principles
  • Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to work autonomously while collaborating across teams
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, GIS, or related field

Responsibilities

  • Own the evolution and quality of ArcGIS web services
  • Make key product decisions balancing customer needs and platform health
  • Set service goals and use metrics to guide prioritization
  • Maintain a comprehensive product backlog prioritizing various needs
  • Manage service contracts, API behavior, and compatibility issues
  • Push for operational excellence in reliability and performance
  • Collaborate across teams to influence product direction
  • Work with Esri Support Services to manage enhancement and defect requests

Benefits

  • Industry-leading health and welfare benefits
  • 401(k) and profit-sharing programs
  • Minimum 80 hours of vacation leave per year
  • Twelve paid holidays annually
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth
Full Job Description
Overview

ArcGIS Hub is expanding how people discover, share, and collaborate around authoritative geospatial data. As a Senior Product Engineer - Web Services, you will own and guide the evolution of backend services that power in-app and programmatic customer workflows across the ArcGIS platform.

This is a senior, product-focused role that combines deep technical fluency with strong product judgment. You will act as a service owner and trusted decision-maker, shaping priorities, balancing tradeoffs, and ensuring our web services remain reliable, scalable, and valuable to customers over time.

Responsibilities
  • Own the end-to-end evolution, quality, and customer impact of one or more ArcGIS web services, including enhancements, defects, reliability improvements, and technical investments
  • Serve as the primary product decision-maker for assigned services, balancing customer needs, platform health, and long-term sustainability
  • Define and act on service goals, success metrics, and quality standards, using telemetry and customer feedback to guide prioritization and investment
  • Maintain and prioritize a comprehensive product backlog, making informed tradeoffs across features, defects, technical debt, and operational work
  • Own service contracts, API behavior, versioning, and backward compatibility, evaluating downstream impact across the ArcGIS ecosystem
  • Champion operational excellence, advocating for reliability, performance, scalability, and observability best practices
  • Influence product direction and multiply impact through cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and shared standards
  • Validate and triage enhancement and defect requests in collaboration with Esri Support Services

Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in a product-focused role such as Product Engineer, Technical Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar
  • Strong experience working in Agile software development environments
  • Deep familiarity with web services and APIs, including RESTful services, service contracts, versioning, and backward compatibility
  • Experience working with ArcGIS applications and technologies (such as ArcGIS Hub, ArcGIS Map Viewer, ArcGIS REST APIs, ArcGIS API for Python, ArcGIS Maps SDKs)
  • Working knowledge of cloud-native service fundamentals, including availability, performance, monitoring, and operational concerns
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Proven ability to operate with high autonomy while collaborating effectively across teams
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, GIS, Information Science, or another related field

Recommended Qualifications
  • Experience supporting enterprise-scale or other developer-focused products
  • Comfortable reading and reasoning about code in languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and SQL (hands-on implementation is not required)
  • Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices from a product and quality perspective

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Total Rewards

Esri's competitive total rewards strategy includes industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families), 401(k) and profit-sharing programs, minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Base salary is one component of our total rewards strategy. Compensation decisions and the base range for this role take into account many factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

A reasonable estimate of the base salary range is

$93,600-$159,328 USD

About Esri

Esri is a global leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Redlands, California. Esri's software is used by governments, businesses, and non-profit organizations worldwide to analyze and visualize data in order to make better decisions. The company's flagship product, ArcGIS, is a powerful mapping and analytics platform that allows users to create, manage, and share geographic information. Esri has a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, and works to promote environmental stewardship and social equity through its products and services.
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Size
11,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1969

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