# AI Engineer - Product Engineer 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: 2026-06-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traversal/757bf638-db5d-47b6-b9e9-0727f2ec113e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/traversal-ai-engineer-product-engineer/

## About the role

Our core product is our AI SRE agent. As a Product Engineer on the Agents team, you'll own how that agent behaves, where it shows up, and whether it holds up under real production load. That means working end-to-end on the harness and context engineering that shape agent reasoning, the streaming and orchestration layers that put it in front of engineers mid-incident, and the observability and evaluation systems that tell us whether any of it is actually working.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on full-stack or backend systems
- Hands-on experience building with agentic AI systems or LLM-powered products, including familiarity with tool use, context management, and the failure modes that come with both
- Strong experience with Python and web frameworks such as FastAPI
- Comfort working in a React and TypeScript codebase, enough to ship a feature end to end without waiting on someone else for the frontend
- Experience deploying applications on AWS, working with ECS or Kubernetes, Postgres for data storage, and S3 for large-scale object storage
- Proven ability to lead in fast-paced startup environments, with limited resources, shifting priorities, and minimal structure

Tags: Engineering