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title: 'Member of Technical Staff at Grit'
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# Member of Technical Staff at Grit

- **Company:** Grit
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2023-10-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/grit/am9icG9zdDqVjOp3I5VfJXQR1I0DS_k4

## About Grit

## Company Overview
- **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)

## Core Business
- **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.

## Products & Services
- **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.

## Market Standing
- **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.

## Competitive Advantages
- **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.

## Strategic Focus
- 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.

## Why Work Here
- **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.

## Sources
1. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/grit-grit-io)
2. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/getgrit)
3. [zoominfo.com](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/grit/566158297)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/job/senior-staff-software-engineer/8890466)

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