Traversal · 2 weeks ago
AI Engineer - Backend
New York
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$150K/yr - $300K/yr
3+ years expTraversal is an AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) focused on enabling enterprises to manage complex production incidents. As a Backend AI Engineer, you will design and build core systems for AI incident detection, collaborate with teams to develop high-performance APIs, and ensure optimal performance and reliability in production environments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)SoftwareSoftware Engineering
Responsibilities
Backend System Design & Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of scalable, robust backend systems to support AI agents and observability tools
API Development: Design and implement high-performance APIs to enable seamless communication between backend systems and frontend interfaces
Data Management: Ensure efficient data storage, retrieval, and processing, leveraging technologies like PostgreSQL, Redis, or others
AI Integration: Collaborate with AI engineers to integrate AI-driven insights and solutions into backend systems, and take ownership of API authentication and authorization frameworks
Performance Optimization: Monitor, optimize, and scale backend services to handle high volumes of data while ensuring low-latency performance
Collaboration: Partner with frontend engineers, AI researchers, and other teams to ensure a seamless, high-performance user experience
Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, helping to grow a strong backend engineering team
Qualification
Required
3+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development and full-stack systems
Proven ability to lead in fast-paced startup environments, with limited resources, shifting priorities, and minimal structure
Strong experience with Python and web frameworks such as FastAPI
Experience deploying applications on AWS, working with ECS or Kubernetes, Postgres for data storage, and S3 for large-scale object storage
Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools, specifically Datadog, to ensure the system is running smoothly and efficiently
Preferred
Familiarity with Python-based ecosystems is a plus
Experience working with Agentic AI systems or in the observability domain
Background in large-scale, complex, data-driven applications
Familiarity with AI or LLM-powered products
Benefits
Health insurance
Startup equity
Flexible time off
Great tech setup
Plenty of in-office snacks
Company
Traversal
Traversal is building the AI SRE for the enterprise.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$48MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalKleiner Perkins
2025-06-20Seed
2025-06-18Series A· $48M
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