Backend AI Engineer

Role Overview

As a Backend AI Engineer at Traversal, you'll play a key role in designing and building the core systems behind our AI site reliability engineer, working closely with AI and infrastructure teams to productionize novel AI agent architectures and machine learning algorithms.

What You Will Do

Design and implement scalable, robust backend systems, develop high-performance inference APIs, and build internal observability tooling, spanning ingesting and reasoning over logs, metrics, and traces at scale.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You'll have the flexibility to move fast, learn constantly, and own meaningful parts of the product, making a real impact and helping define a new category of infrastructure software.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong focus on backend development and full-stack systems
• Proven ability to lead in fast-paced startup environments
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Startup equity
• Health insurance
• Flexible time off
• In-office snacks