Traversal
Staff Full-Stack Product Engineer
New York. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will design and build core product surfaces powered by an AI Site Reliability Engineer. You will work across the stack from user interfaces to backend services and infrastructure to translate AI capabilities into production-grade product experiences.
What you will do
- Drive end-to-end development of core product capabilities.
- Design scalable system architectures spanning frontend, backend services, and data infrastructure.
- Design and implement high-performance APIs and service layers.
- Build highly interactive interfaces for exploring operational data.
- Design efficient strategies for storing, processing, and retrieving large-scale operational data.
- Collaborate with AI engineers and researchers to operationalize model outputs in production systems.
- Help shape engineering best practices and influence technical direction.
Required qualifications
- 8+ years building and operating complex full-stack systems in production environments
- Strong proficiency in Python and modern backend frameworks such as FastAPI or similar
- Deep experience building modern frontend applications using React and TypeScript
- Experience designing and operating scalable backend services and APIs
- Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments (AWS), including containerized workloads using ECS or Kubernetes
- Experience working with data-intensive systems, including relational databases such as Postgres and distributed storage systems
- Strong product instincts and the ability to translate technical capabilities into intuitive user-facing functionality
- Ability to operate effectively in early-stage startup environments with high ownership and evolving priorities
Nice to have
- Experience building data-heavy interfaces, including time-series visualization or operational dashboards
- Experience working with observability platforms, infrastructure tooling, or developer platforms
- Familiarity with AI/LLM-powered products or agentic systems
- Background working on large-scale, distributed, or data-driven applications
Benefits
- startup equity
- health insurance
- fertility benefits
- great tech setup stipend
- flexible time off
- in-office snacks
- team happy hours and outings
- annual company offsite
About the company
Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (AI SRE) for the enterprise. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures, and Khosla Ventures.