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 Security Engineer at Traversal, your mission is to raise the security floor across the company by building AI-native security mechanisms tailored to how we work. This is not a compliance role, and it isn’t about the basics like adding SAST to pipelines. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 4-6+ years building or securing production software or infrastructure at technically rigorous companies or teams, including sensitive, mission-critical systems
- Proven ability to independently lead ambiguous, cross-team security projects from design through implementation, migration, and adoption, with minimal structure
- Strong programming skills in a language such as Python, Rust, or Go and the ability to work effectively in an existing codebase
- Hands-on depth in application security or cloud security, with working knowledge of the other, gained either in a security role or by owning security-critical systems as a software or infrastructure engineer
- Technical depth in risk assessment. Looks at standards like NIST & SOC2 as a starting point, and not necessarily the right baseline
- Practical understanding of authentication, authorization, trust boundaries, secrets, and common failure modes in distributed systems
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 Security Engineer at Traversal, your mission is to raise the security floor...
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