At a Glance
- Tasks: Architect and build an AI SRE agent for production incident investigation.
- Company: Early-stage startup focused on innovative AI solutions for production engineering.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, 30 days leave, and team socials.
- Other info: High ownership role with opportunities for significant impact and career growth.
- Why this job: Join a small, dynamic team and shape the future of AI in production systems.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in software engineering with strong backend and distributed systems experience.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 130000 £ per year.
About Us
Tracer is an early‑stage, venture‑backed startup building the open source AI SRE agent for production engineering.
We are backed by experienced operators and investors who believe AI for production systems will be one of the defining enterprise software categories of the next decade.
Our team is small, senior, and highly execution‑focused.
About the Role
Tracer is building an open source AI SRE agent that automatically investigates production incidents across the entire production stack.
We’re hiring a Founding AI Engineer (Staff) in London to own the core architecture and ship an agent that produces grounded RCAs and fix suggestions across production infrastructure.
Humans stay in control of production decisions; the agent does the heavy lifting.
This is a hands‑on, high‑ownership role at the center of the product.
- Technology Stack
- Python + Lang Graph (for multi‑agentic alert investigation)
- Rust (fast and correct systems)
- Click House (high‑volume event + investigation history at scale)
- AWS + Terraform (infrastructure that builds itself)
- Next. js + Type Script (front‑end)
Responsibilities
- Architect and build the core alert, investigation, and root‑cause analysis pipeline in Python.
- Design and implement key systems including alert ingestion and normalization, context enrichment and correlation, problem framing outputs, hypothesis orchestration engine, investigation execution runtime, and investigation artifacts and reporting.
- Drive core architecture decisions and ensure the system is observable, auditable, and reliable from day one.
- Partner with founders to ship a small set of high‑value alert types that work extremely well, then expand coverage deliberately.
- Build customer‑ready integrations across the pipeline stack.
- Educate and guide future engineers, setting a high bar for technical quality, speed, and pragmatism.
Qualifications
- 5+ years (ideally 10+) of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven track record of shipping real products at high velocity.
- Strong backend and distributed‑systems foundations, ideally with experience in data platforms and production pipeline stacks and incident/observability tooling.
- Experience working at an early‑stage startup; bonus points for having joined earlier.
- High ownership and sharp product instincts: you build what matters and cut what doesn’t.
Compensation & Benefits
Total
Compensation
Range: £70,000 – £130,000+ (salary and equity value).
Compensation structure includes competitive base salary and meaningful equity ownership with real upside.
Final package depends on experience, impact, and seniority.
Benefits include salary + equity (equity typically 0.3% – 2%+), 30 days annual leave, employee health insurance, visa sponsorship, weekly team dinners and socials, regular team off‑sites and trips, and the satisfaction of building a world‑class AI‑powered product with an exceptional team.
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