This role is a Junior Software / AI Infrastructure Engineer at an early-stage startup called Tracer, which builds an open-source AI Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) agent.About UsTracer is an early-stage, venture-backed startup building the open source AI SRE agent for production engineering that automatically investigates production incidents across the entire production stack.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 RoleWe are opening up engineering roles to earlier-career engineers who are hungry to work on hard problems. This is a hands-on role where you will contribute directly to the OpenSRE codebase, build integrations used by engineers worldwide, and work closely with the founding team.If you have shipped real projects, contributed to open source, or built side projects, we want to hear from you.💻 You’ll Love Our Tech StackPython + LangGraph (for multi-agentic alert investigation)Rust (because we like systems that are fast and correct)ClickHouse (high-volume event + investigation history at scale)AWS + Terraform (infrastructure that builds itself)💼 What You’ll DoBuild and maintain integrations connecting OpenSRE to tools like Grafana, Datadog, Kafka, Airflow and moreContribute to the core agent: alert ingestion, context enrichment, hypothesis execution, and RCA reportingWrite tests and synthetic incident simulations for the RL environmentReview and respond to community pull requests and issuesWork directly with senior engineers and founders to ship features fastAttend engineering conferences globally to connect with fellow engineers and grow awareness of the OpenSRE open source project🌟 What We’re Looking For0-2 years of professional experience, or strong project/extracurricular experience as a graduateComfortable in PythonHas shipped something real, a side project, open source contribution, university project, or anything you built and put in front of usersCurious about distributed systems, observability, or AI infrastructureBonus: prior open source contributions or experience with LangGraph, Grafana, Datadog, or cloud infrastructure💸 Compensation & BenefitsTotal Compensation Range: up to £70,000 (incl. equity)We structure compensation as follows:Competitive base salaryMeaningful equity ownership with real upsideFinal package depends on experience, impact, and seniorityWhat’s included:Salary + equity30 days annual leaveEmployee health insuranceVisa sponsorshipWeekly team dinners and socialsRegular team offsites and trips (our most recent was Kenya 🇰🇪)
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