Founding Senior Backend Engineer
Tracer CloudLondon, England, United Kingdom
Posted January 30, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Tracer Cloud Inc specializes in AI‑driven alert investigation for data pipelines, automatically filtering noise and correlating evidence across workflows, infrastructure, and telemetry to deliver evidence‑based root cause analyses. By leveraging parallel AI agents that test multiple hypotheses before a human is alerted, the platform proactively identifies real incidents and reduces false positives. Tracer’s focus on data pipelines and its integration with cloud infrastructure, HPC, and observability tools make it uniquely positioned to streamline DevOps and biotechnology operations. The company’s technology delivers actionable insights that help teams resolve critical pipeline issues faster and with greater confidence.
Job Description
Tracer is building autonomous AI agents for production data pipelines and hiring a Founding Senior Backend Engineer to own and build the core systems for agentic alert investigation.
Requirements
- 5+ years (ideally 10+) 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
Benefits
- Salary + equity (equity typically ~0.3% – 2%+)
- 30 days annual leave
- Employee health insurance
- Visa sponsorship
- Weekly team dinners and socials
- Regular team offsites and trips
- The satisfaction of building a world-class AI-powered product with an exceptional team