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AI Engineer - Backend/Platform

Traversal· Engineering
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New York$150k - $300kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

AI Engineer - Backend/Platform at Traversal, building core backend foundations, frameworks, and observability to power AI agents and scalable systems for AI-driven enterprise site reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of scalable, robust backend systems to support AI agents and observability tools.
  • Design and implement high-performance APIs to enable seamless communication between backend systems and frontend interfaces.
  • Architect scalable distributed systems to support real-time workloads over petabytes of heterogeneous telemetry data.
  • Build live evaluation pipelines, automated scoring systems, and benchmarks to measure and drive AI performance.
  • Collaborate with AI engineers and scientists to integrate AI-driven insights and solutions into backend systems.
  • Monitor, optimize, and scale backend services to handle high volumes of data while ensuring low-latency performance.

Qualifications

  • Strong system design skills for distributed systems.
  • Proven production-scale software engineering experience.
  • Experience with LLM-based applications and/or multi-agent systems.
  • Strong data modeling skills and a track record of writing clean, maintainable code.
  • Collaborative, impact-driven mindset and ability to work across research and engineering teams.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designBackend software engineeringLLM-based applications / multi-agent systemsData modeling

Benefits

  • competitive compensation
  • startup equity
  • health insurance
  • additional benefits
  • fertility benefits
  • tech setup stipend
  • flexible time off
  • in-office snacks
  • team happy hours and outings
  • annual company offsite
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Traversal

The only AI SRE for the enterprise

Traversal cuts through alert noise, surfaces root causes, and guides your team to remediation — so incidents get fixed in minutes, not hours.

AISREcomplex systemsalertingroot cause analysisincident preventionenterprise
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