Member of Technical Staff at Grit (San Francisco, CA)

Grit· San Francisco, CA·1d ago

Role details

Work type

Onsite

Employment

Full-Time

Job description

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Culture & mission: High-impact work on "crushing technical debt" — a tangible, meaningful problem for every software company.
Early-team ownership: Significant equity upside, direct influence on product vision, and regular contact with users.
Compensation: Competitive base salary (e.g., up to $250K for Senior/Staff Software Engineer) plus meaningful equity.
In-person collaboration: Most of the team works from the NYC office near Union Square; some roles (e.g., PL/Compiler Engineer) are remote within the US.
Technical challenge: Work at the frontier of programming languages, static analysis, ML, and developer experience. Dogfood your own product and help design the ideal developer workflow.
Post-acquisition resources: Team is now part of Honeycomb, offering stability and broader platform impact.

One-liner: Grit puts software maintenance on autopilot with fully automated migrations and AI-assisted refactoring.
Entity Type: Private (Seed stage) — Acquired by Honeycomb in April 2025
Headquarters: New York, NY, USA
Founded: 2022
Founders: Not fully named in public sources; job postings reference leadership by "Cosmin" and "Morgante" (likely co-founders)

Primary industries: Developer Tools, Software Engineering Automation, AI for Code, Static Analysis
Target customers: B2B, Enterprise/SMB engineering teams with legacy codebases, framework migrations, and technical debt
Mission or purpose statement: "Crush technical debt" — Grit believes a big challenge of the next decade will be crumbling digital infrastructure, and is building AI bots that automatically maintain software through static analysis, machine learning, and a custom query language.

Grit (core platform): AI-powered software maintenance platform that automatically generates pull requests for code migrations and refactoring. Delivered as a web app (React), CLI (TypeScript), and backend (GraphQL + TypeScript).
GritQL: An open-source query engine for searching and transforming source code, designed to make simple searches easy while supporting complex transformations.
Static analysis + ML toolchain: Combines codebase analysis with AI to target fixes and framework upgrades at scale.

Valuation/Market Cap: Not disclosed (private); acquired by Honeycomb on 2025-04-10
Key Metric: Total funding: $7.2M — $7M Seed round (Aug 2023) led by Founders Fund and Abstract Ventures, plus a $200K grant.
Notable Investors/Partners: Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures, Quiet Capital, 8VC, A* Capital, AME Cloud Ventures
Growth Signals:
- Acquired by observability leader Honeycomb in April 2025, combining Grit's codebase analysis engine with Honeycomb's observability tools.
- GritQL open-sourced in March 2024.
- Multiple active job openings across engineering, design, and infrastructure roles.

Unique tech combo: Static analysis + machine learning + a custom query language (GritQL) enables deep, automated code transformations unmatched by typical linters or codemods.
Autonomous maintenance: Generates ready-to-merge pull requests, reducing manual engineering effort for migrations and refactoring.
Dogfooding: Grit uses its own product internally, ensuring the developer experience is battle-tested.
Backing + acquisition: Strong early investors and now the resources and distribution of Honeycomb.

Continuing to develop AI agents for software maintenance and migration.
Deep integration with Honeycomb's observability platform to connect codebase analysis with runtime insights.
Scaling open-source adoption of GritQL and expanding from beta to broader release.
Hiring across compiler/PL engineering, cloud infrastructure, design engineering, and full-stack roles.

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