Software Engineer, Backend
Company: Cleric
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: February 18, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description 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)
Keywords: Cleric, Novato , Software Engineer, Backend, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California
