Join a high-velocity team building an autonomous AI agent that investigates production incidents 10X faster than manual debugging. As a Staff-level hire, you will define the product category for AI-native site reliability engineering, translating complex 2AM production pain into seamless autonomous reasoning systems that already achieve 78%+ accuracy at scale.
Staff Software Engineer, Product at $9.8M Seed-stage AI SRE startup
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to define the future of AI-native SRE at a $9.8M Seed-stage startup backed by Zetta Venture Partners. Founded by the creator of Feast and the former engineering lead of Gojek, this team is building an autonomous agent that investigates production incidents with 78%+ accuracy. If you have felt the 2AM stress of on-call and want to build the AI that solves it—working alongside an elite team of observability experts in San Francisco—this is the defining product role for the next generation of DevOps.
Overview
Role overview
Company
Cleric
$9.8M Seed-stage AI SRE startup backed by Zetta Venture Partners and Vertex Ventures US
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Design and build the core investigation systems, including data flows and integration points that surface autonomous agent reasoning to human engineers.
- Lead product discovery by joining customer war rooms and observing live debugging sessions to turn user friction into concrete technical features.
- Set high-level engineering standards and make critical technical calls across the Python backend and full-stack integrations to maintain shipping velocity.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience owning products end-to-end, with a background in shipping complex software and carrying a pager for production systems at scale.
- Deep expertise in the observability stack (Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus) and a strong instinct for translating fuzzy production problems into concrete solutions.
- AI-native mindset with an active interest in evaluation loops and integrating LLM-based agents into professional engineering workflows.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Work directly with founders who previously led engineering at Gojek and created the open-source feature store Feast, within an elite team of repeat observability builders.
- Tackle the next frontier after coding agents: building an autonomous agent capable of high-stakes reasoning across logs, metrics, and distributed system hypotheses.
- Massive impact in a Gartner 2025 Cool Vendor startup where your architectural and product decisions directly shape how engineers interact with production environments.
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