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Draper, Utah, United States
Hybrid
About Ancestry:
When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, connects everyone with their past so they can discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories. With our unparalleled collection of more than 65 billion records, over 3.5 million subscribers, and over 27 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving, and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.
We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office- see the full list of eligible US locations HERE). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity.
Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that's inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve.
Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious.
Engineering Productivity owns how software gets made at Ancestry. We run the CI/CD platform that every service ships through, and we own the tools where the work happens day-to-day: GitHub, Harness, Jira, Confluence, and Figma. On top of those, we build our own platforms, including internal services for cost governance, developer metadata, and entity APIs, and CLI tooling that puts AI agents into everyday engineering workflows.
Our customers are the engineers, product managers, and designers of Ancestry. The time we save shows up in the output of every product team. Nobody is required to use what we build, so adoption has to be earned.
This is a product role that ships code. You will own one part of the developer experience, usually a specific workflow, tool, or user problem, and carry it from the first conversation through adoption. Within what you own, you are the product manager, designer, and engineer. You talk to users, decide which problem to take on next, choose the shape of the solution, build it, launch it, and find out whether it helped. Your manager, architect, and the team set portfolio priorities and define where your ownership begins and ends. Inside those boundaries, nobody hands you a groomed backlog or a finished mock.
The work mixes zero-to-one product building with applied AI. One project might be a CLI that makes a painful release workflow easy to follow. Another might be an agent that triages and drafts work during software delivery, with the evaluation and review points that make it safe to depend on. The right answer might be a small automation, a polished product surface, an agent, or no new tool at all. Deciding which, then shipping the smallest useful version, is your call.
We want someone opinionated about craft in internal tools, specifically. Internal software is usually held to a lower standard than customer-facing work. It should embarrass us when a tool we ship is slower, uglier, or more confusing than the consumer products our colleagues build for customers.
What you’ll do
Who you are
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Why Ancestry?
Join a dedicated team working to connect millions of people with their past and enrich their futures. In this role you will shape the tools that every engineer, product manager, and designer at Ancestry uses to build a product trusted by millions of people around the world. We offer a collaborative workplace, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference.
Relocation assistance may be available for candidates who are open to moving to Draper, Utah.
Compensation
Ancestry values pay transparency and equity. As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, we are pleased to share the base salary range for this position: $135,000 - $160,000 with eligibility for bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision. Actual salary will depend on location and experience, and ranges are higher in higher cost of labor markets such as the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle. We will provide detailed compensation data for a specific location during the recruiting process.
Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20) and sb1162(1-1-23).
Additional Information:
Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For candidates who live in San Francisco, CA, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means.
