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Staff Software Engineer, Product

Salary: $200K – $240K + Equity

Company Description: Cleric - Seed-stage AI startup building an autonomous, self-learning AI SRE backed by Zetta Venture Partners and Vertex Ventures US.

Job Description: 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.

Location: San Francisco, USA

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.

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.

The Ideal Candidate:

• 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.

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