Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprisetrusted by some of the worlds largest companies to troubleshoot, remediate, and prevent complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work.
Our roots are in AI research, and were applying scientific rigor and creativity to build the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Weve assembled a talented team from MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, and industry leaders from Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Cerebras Systems, Glean, Nuro, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more to tackle hard AI problems.
The Role
As a Full-Stack AI Engineer at Traversal, youll design and build core features powered by our AI site reliability engineering platform. Youll work across the full stackfrom user interface to backend and infrastructuredeveloping components for real-time incident detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation in complex production environments. The role requires the ability to span the full product pipeline with a strong product sense while being comfortable with AI and data processing infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Product Impact:
Translate AI-powered insights into user-friendly features that empower engineers and reduce cognitive load.
User Experience:
Innovate and evolve UX/UI design, iterating rapidly based on user feedback to improve usability.
API Development:
Design and implement high-performance APIs enabling communication between backend systems and frontend interfaces.
Data Management:
Ensure efficient data storage, retrieval, and processing using technologies like PostgreSQL, Redis, or others.
AI Integration:
Collaborate with AI engineers/researchers to integrate AI-driven insights into backend systems; own API authentication and authorization frameworks.
Data Visualization:
Develop intuitive interfaces for presenting and interacting with complex time-series and topological data.
Requirements
3+ years of software engineering experience with a strong full-stack focus.
Proven ability to lead in fast-paced startup environments with limited resources and shifting priorities.
Strong experience with Python and web frameworks such as FastAPI.
Hands-on experience with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and TailwindCSS to build fast, responsive frontends. React experience is essential; other tools can be learned with support.
Experience deploying applications on AWS, using ECS or Kubernetes, PostgreSQL for data storage, and S3 for large-scale object storage.
Note: You dont need to meet every single requirement. If you have deep experience in a subset of these areas, we encourage you to apply.
Nice to Have
Familiarity with Python-based ecosystems is a plus.
Experience with Agentic AI systems or in the observability domain.
Background in large-scale, complex, data-driven applications.
Familiarity with AI or LLM-powered products.
Compensation
We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $150,000$300,000, plus equity and benefits. Salary ranges are based on location, level, and role; individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
Why You Should Join Us
We provide health insurance, a great tech setup, flexible time off, and in-office snacks. We offer competitive salary and equity packages and value thoughtful, high-impact contributors on our small team.
Traversal is fully in-office, 5 days a week, based in New York near Madison Square Park. We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.
Working here means owning meaningful parts of the product, moving fast, and learning constantly. This is a place to grow your career, make a real impact, and help define a new category of infrastructure software.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Traversal is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under applicable law.
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