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.
About the role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Traversal, you will own the last-mile delivery of the Traversal platform and product for our most strategic customers to upgrade and tune the performance of our core AI agent directly in their environments. You will need to iterate and prototype rapidly based on customer feedback, understand the nuances of production software systems across industries and scale, and build cutting edge AI systems that operate performantly across petabytes of data. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend, data, and/or cloud infrastructure systems
- Experience with LLM-based applications and/or multi-agent systems, with judgment in model evaluation and experimental iteration to improve product accuracy and behavior
- Proven ability to lead in fast-paced startup environments, with minimal structure, shifting priorities, and limited resources
- Collaborative, impact-driven mindset and ability to work across research and engineering teams
- Experience deploying and maintaining applications on AWS, working with ECS or EKS, Postgres for data storage, and S3 for large-scale object storage
- Strong familiarity with observability and monitoring tools to ensure the system is running smoothly and efficiently
More about this role
Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (AI SRE) for the enterprise.
Production complexity was already outpacing what engineering teams could manage manually, and AI-generated code is accelerating that gap. Traversal is built for that challenge, autonomously understanding and reasoning across even the largest, most complex production environments to diagnose, fix, and prevent incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and give them more time to focus on creative, high-impact work.
Today, Traversal operates in mission-critical environments at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including PepsiCo, Nubank, Harvey, and DigitalOcean. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we’ve brought together researchers from institutions including MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, and Cornell with world-class technical staff and operators from companies like Google, Meta, Datadog, ServiceNow, and Citadel Securities to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Traversal is backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures, and Khosla Ventures.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Traversal, you will own the last-mile delivery of...
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