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Cleric · 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$200K/yr - $240K/yr

Cleric is a company focused on building AI-powered solutions to alleviate operational challenges for engineers. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, AI to lead the development of an autonomous SRE agent, focusing on its reasoning, learning, and integrations to solve complex challenges in production environments.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologySoftware

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and implement agent evaluation frameworks to measure performance and reliability

Debug agent behavior, not just code: trace the agent’s reasoning, tool choices, and context to understand why it made specific decisions

Build autonomous agents capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks

Develop self-improving systems that can adapt based on feedback and results

Expand agent observability to resolve day-to-day issues with tool-calling and agent orchestration

Qualification

Machine Learning fundamentalsBuilding autonomous agentsHigh-scale distributed infrastructureSoftware engineering fundamentalsPythonKubernetesKafkaSparkMicroservicesMethodical thinkingChallenging assumptionsStartup experienceDeep SRE experience

Required

You've spent years building and operating production systems and have a foundation in ML fundamentals. You understand recall, precision, and F1 scores, and why accuracy alone is misleading

You've built at least one agent end-to-end

You regularly use coding agents and AI assistants for real work and have opinions about where they fail or succeed

You have strong software engineering fundamentals and have opinions on how to build robust, scalable, and secure software

You've operated high-scale distributed infrastructure. You've seen it done right, and you've seen it gone wrong. Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, microservices, and all the usual suspects

You've built complex systems at scale. We use Python, but value experience with systems languages (Rust, C++, Go) or JVM languages (Kotlin, Scala)

You are a methodical thinker and try to understand the big picture

You challenge assumptions and propose pragmatic solutions

Preferred

Deep SRE or platform engineering experience

Previous 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

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (1)

Funding

Current Stage

Early Stage

Total Funding

$9.8M

Key Investors

Vertex Ventures USZetta Venture Partners

2025-12-09Seed· $5.5M

2024-03-21Seed· $4.3M

Leadership Team

Shahram Anver

Co Founder, CEO

Willem Pienaar

Co-Founder and CTO

Recent News

alleywatch.com

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 12/15/25

2025-12-16

EIN Presswire

Cleric launches the first self-learning AI SRE

2025-12-09

Morningstar.com

Cleric Launches the First Self-Learning AI SRE

2025-12-09

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