Software Engineer, Backend

Job Description

Join us at Cleric

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.

About the role

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.

What you’ll do

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

You have

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 we work

Small teams, big impact

Radical candor in a positive environment

In-person collaboration

AI-first in everything we do

Interview process

Intro Call & Technical Screen

Software engineering session

System design

Bar raiser (product & engineering practices)

Full-time