Member of Technical Staff, Developer Experience
Reactor
San Francisco, CA · Posted October 30, 2026
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About the job
Member of Technical Staff, Developer Experience
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: San Francisco
Description Reactor is building the inference platform for real-time world models. We run the largest and fastest catalog of world models on the market (15+ and growing), including LingBot World 2, LTX 2.5 Realtime, and HappyOyster. Our founders, Alberto Taiuti (CEO) and Bryce Schmidtchen (CTO), met as technical leads on the early Apple Vision Pro team. Alberto went on to co-found Luma AI, now a $4B company. We've raised $59M, led by Lightspeed, with Amplify Partners, WndrCo, and NVIDIA's NVentures participating. Jeffrey Katzenberg, cofounder of Dreamworks Animation, sits on our board of directors.
This role owns the developer's experience of our platform: the SDKs, the docs, the examples, and the fix when a customer's integration breaks.
What You'll Do
Contribute to our SDKs and CLIs across the programming languages our developers use, plus the tooling that scaffolds and generates clients for all of them
Write the documentation, quickstarts, tutorials, and reference guides that get a developer from zero to a working real-time session in minutes, and use them yourself to keep them accurate
Build example apps and reference integrations that show what's possible with the platform
Debug customer integrations end to end: client, network, session, inference, and turn each failure into a better error message, a doc fix, or an SDK improvement
Define and instrument how we measure developer experience, and use that data to decide what to build next
Feed integration problems back into platform and API design, and push for the underlying fix rather than a workaround in the docs
Keep a pulse on where developers get stuck across support, GitHub issues, and community channels, not just what reaches you as a formal bug report
Turn a pattern that keeps showing up in support threads into a real SDK or docs fix instead of a FAQ entry
What We're Looking For
3+ years as a software engineer, with the ability to chase a bug across the browser, backend, and more
Ability to build working demos against our SDKs quickly, and to review customer integration PRs
Strong technical writing; comfortable producing docs, tutorials, and reference content
Genuine interest in working directly with developers: in support threads, teaching, and having the patience to meet people where they are
A sharp eye for API and SDK design, and the judgment to know when a workaround is enough and when the root cause needs fixing
You think of a good SDK and good docs as the same problem, not two separate ones
Comfort with an early-stage role where scope isn't fully defined yet
Nice to Have
Experience with WebRTC, streaming media, or other real-time systems
Prior DX/SDK/docs work at a developer-tools or API company
Familiarity with API/schema design
Open-source contributions, technical blogging, or an existing developer audience
Experience building with AI products and models
Familiarity with GPU-backed inference or debugging performance issues in a real-time media pipeline
Benefits
Direct access to the engineers building the platform, and to every developer who uses it
Competitive SF salary and meaningful early equity
Visa sponsorship and relocation support
Generous health, dental, and vision coverage