# AI Engineer - Backend at Traversal

- Company: Traversal
- What the company does: Traversal is the AI SRE that triages alerts, finds root cause, and resolves incidents at petabyte scale. Trusted by American Express, PepsiCo, and DigitalOcean. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.traversal.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-06-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traversal/24a6c836-ccb6-4702-800a-4087c01296d8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/traversal-ai-engineer-backend/

## About the role

As a Backend AI Engineer at Traversal, you’ll play a key role in designing and building the core systems behind our AI site reliability engineer, the infrastructure that enables real-time incident detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation in some of the most complex production environments.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development and full-stack systems
- Proven ability to lead in fast-paced startup environments, with limited resources, shifting priorities, and minimal structure
- Strong experience with Python and web frameworks such as FastAPI
- Experience deploying applications on AWS, working with ECS or Kubernetes, Postgres for data storage, and S3 for large-scale object storage
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools to ensure the system is running smoothly and efficiently

Tags: Engineering