About Traversal
Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise—already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work.
Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we're channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we're proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley, to world-class engineers from industry: Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Datadog, DE Shaw, ServiceNow, Glean, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more, to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Without the entire team, none of this would be possible.
The Role
As a New Grad Software Engineer at Traversal, you'll help build the core product and AI systems that power our observability platform. Depending on your interests and the team's needs, you might work on:
- Backend services and APIs
- Frontend product experiences
- AI agents and LLM-powered workflows
- Data and infrastructure that keep everything fast and reliable
You'll work closely with experienced engineers across AI, backend, infra, and product to ship real features that help engineers understand and debug complex systems.
What you'll do
- Ship product features: Contribute to end-to-end features across the stack—from backend logic to frontend UI.
- Build and integrate APIs: Help design, implement, and maintain APIs and services that power user workflows and AI integrations.
- Work with AI & agents: Collaborate with AI engineers to plug LLMs and agent workflows into real product experiences.
- Handle real data: Work with logs, metrics, traces, or other system data to make insights understandable and actionable.
- Experiment & iterate: Prototype ideas, run experiments, and use data and feedback to decide what to ship.
- Debug & improve reliability: Help monitor, debug, and improve performance and reliability of the systems you work on.
You might be a good fit if
- You're graduating with a BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field (or have equivalent experience), or you're currently a student looking for an internship.
- You have strong coding skills in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Rust, or similar, and you've built real projects (internships, research, hackathons, side projects).
- You're interested in one or more of:
- Full-stack development (backend + frontend)
- AI/LLMs and agents
- Infrastructure, distributed systems, or data-heavy applications
- You enjoy debugging, learning new systems, and working through ambiguous problems.
- You're excited by startups: high ownership, fast iteration, and working closely with a small, senior team.
Nice to Have (not required)
- Experience with React, TypeScript, Next.js, or other modern frontend frameworks.
- Exposure to backend frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Flask) or databases like Postgres.
- Projects involving LLMs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or agentic workflows.
- Familiarity with observability data (logs, metrics, traces) or incident response tools.
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Contributions to open source or personal projects you're proud to show.
Compensation
We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $100,000–$130,000, plus equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are based on location, level, and role. Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
Why You Should Join Us
We'll make sure you're fully supported with health insurance, a great tech setup, flexible time off, and plenty of in-office snacks. We offer competitive salary and equity packages, and take thoughtful consideration with every hire on our small, high-impact team.
Traversal is fully in-office, 5 days a week, based in New York near Madison Square Park. We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.
Working here means owning meaningful parts of the product, having the flexibility to move fast, and learning constantly. This is a place to grow your career, make a real impact, and help define a new category of infrastructure software.
