Backend Engineer, AI SRE
Software Engineering, Data Science · Full-time
Cupertino, CA, USA · Remote
Posted on Nov 3, 2026
What you’ll work on
- Build the agent fleet that investigates live production incidents: gathering context, forming hypotheses, testing them against real telemetry, and synthesising a root cause.
- Design multi-agent orchestration: coordinator loops, specialised sub-agents, and the handoffs between them.
- Wire agents to real observability data through MCP tools: metrics, logs, traces, Kubernetes state, profiles.
- Build the evaluation harnesses that tell us whether an investigation was actually correct, not merely plausible.
- Ship guardrails: least-privilege tool surfaces, read-only boundaries, and permission models that hold under autonomous operation.
What we look for
- Strong backend engineering first. This is distributed systems work that happens to involve LLMs, not prompt-tuning.
- Experience building agentic systems: tool use, function calling, multi-step planning, long-running loops.
- Judgment about autonomy and safety: what an agent should do unattended, and what it must never do.
- Ability to reason about production incidents yourself. You can’t build an SRE agent without SRE instincts.
Bonus
- SRE, on-call or incident-response background. You’ve been paged and know what a real investigation feels like.
- Observability depth: correlating metrics, logs and traces to isolate a failure.
- Experience with agent SDKs, MCP, or building tools for LLMs to consume.
- Eval tooling and LLM-as-judge methods, and a healthy scepticism about both.
- Prompts-as-code discipline: versioned, reviewed and tested like any other source.
How we work
- Small team, short feedback loops, real ownership from week one.
- You’ll talk to customers, engineers debugging real incidents, and that shapes what you build.
- We ship, then iterate; bias toward hands-on building over process.
- Modern tooling is encouraged, including AI-assisted development.
- Team
- Engineering
- Location
- Cupertino / Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Stack
- Go · Python · MCP · Kubernetes