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Cleric · 4 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Product

San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $220K/yr

Cleric is building an autonomous, self-learning AI SRE to enhance engineering teams' efficiency in investigating production incidents. The Staff Software Engineer will define the AI SRE role, work directly with engineers to shape product direction, and make technical decisions across the stack.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Software

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Build the systems that power investigations: data flows, integration points, how agent reasoning surfaces to engineers

Work directly with engineers: calls, war rooms, watching them debug live systems - and turn that into product direction

Define what 'good' looks like for investigations. Identify gaps. Work with AI engineers to close them

Run experiments: try new ways of surfacing results, measure engineer trust, double down or delete based on signal

Make technical calls across the stack (Python, integrations, frontend when needed) with the ownership to see them through

Set engineering standards that let us ship fast and maintain quality

Qualification

AI SRE definitionSystem designProduct directionPythonAI/ML experienceDeveloper toolsStartup experienceProduct instinctsObservabilityProblem-solving

Required

An engineer who's owned products end-to-end - not built to spec, but decided what to build. You can point to specific features and explain why they worked

Familiar with production pain: you've carried a pager, triaged incidents, felt the 2AM stress

Someone with strong product instincts who turns fuzzy problems into concrete solutions

Technically capable across the stack - backend, integrations, frontend when needed

A driver, not a passenger. You fix problems when you see them, not when you're asked

Preferred

Developer tools, observability, or infrastructure background

Experience with AI/ML products, especially evaluation and improvement loops

Startup experience

Company

Cleric

Cleric is an AI teammate that frees software engineers up from on-call support.

Founded in 2023

San Francisco, California, USA

2-10 employees

https://cleric.io

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