You will define the future of incident response by building the first autonomous AI SRE. This Staff-level role involves designing complex data flows, surfacing agent reasoning to engineers, and conducting product experiments. You'll work directly with the founders to solve the next hard challenge in AI: high-trust, autonomous production investigation.
Staff Software Engineer, Product at Cleric — AI SRE startup
Join Cleric in San Francisco to build the world's first autonomous AI SRE. We're a seed-stage team of infrastructure experts from Google and Apple, backed by $9.8M, creating an agent that investigates production incidents 10X faster than humans. As a Staff Engineer, you won't just write code; you'll define the product vision, run experiments, and solve the high-stakes trust challenges of AI-driven debugging. If you've carried a pager, felt the stress of a 2 AM outage, and want to build the tool that ends that pain forever, this is your chance to lead a new category in DevOps.
Overview
Why this role stands out
Company
Cleric - Seed-stage AI startup building an autonomous, self-learning AI SRE backed by Zetta Venture Partners and Vertex Ventures US.
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Architect and build the core systems that power autonomous investigations, including integration points and reasoning interfaces.
- Drive product direction by embedding in engineering war rooms to observe real-world debugging and translate findings into features.
- Set high engineering standards across the stack (Python, backend, and frontend) to ensure high velocity and system reliability.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Has extensive experience shipping products at scale and has personally felt the "2AM pager stress" of triaging production incidents.
- Possesses strong product instincts, with a proven track record of deciding what to build rather than just executing on specs.
- Is technically proficient across the full stack and actively uses AI coding agents like Cursor or Copilot in their daily workflow.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Shape a new product category by defining how AI handles production incidents with 78%+ accuracy at high-scale companies like BlaBlaCar.
- Join a high-caliber team of repeat builders from Google, Apple, and Tecton, backed by $9.8M in seed funding from top-tier VCs.
- Experience true technical autonomy and direct impact as one of the first 10 employees in an AI-native, in-person SF culture.
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