Cleric
Software Engineer, Backend
5mo ago
140000 –170000 USD / yearUSAJuniorpythonsystem design
Build and scale an autonomous AI agent by developing backend production systems for real customer-facing features.
Responsibilities
- We’re hiring a Software Engineer, Backend to help build and scale our autonomous agent. This role is ideal for engineers who want to build, ship, and work on production AI systems in real-world environments.
- You’ll work closely with senior engineers on agent reasoning, integrations, and runtime systems, contributing directly to real customer-facing functionality.
Requirements
- 1–2 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong fundamentals in software engineering and system design
- Experience programming in Python (experience with other languages is a plus)
- Interest in AI, ML, and agentic systems
- A desire to learn quickly and work on real production problems
Nice to have
- Exposure to AI/ML systems or LLM-based products
- Experience with distributed systems or cloud infrastructure
- Startup or fast-paced team experience
How to apply
- Intro Call & Technical Screen
- Software engineering session
- System design
- Bar raiser (product & engineering practices)
Other
- We’re building an autonomous AI agent that investigates and resolves production incidents. Our agent combines LLMs with tools to understand systems, reason through problems, and take corrective actions — even for issues it hasn’t seen before.
- Cleric is already running in production at high-scale companies across fintech, ride-sharing, and autonomous vehicles.
- Contribute to autonomous agent capabilities and tool execution workflows
- Build and extend integrations with production systems
- Support development of agent evaluation and observability tooling
- Work with senior engineers to design, implement, and ship features
- Learn how to build reliable AI systems operating in production environments
- Small teams, big impact
- Radical candor in a positive environment
- In-person collaboration
- AI-first in everything we do