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title: 'Technical Recruiter at Traversal'
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# Technical Recruiter at Traversal

- **Company:** Traversal
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traversal/90391d6e-d951-4fd6-b90f-dcf5bf62f863

## Job description

## ABOUT TRAVERSAL

Traversal https://www.traversal.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (AI SRE) for the enterprise.

Production complexity was already outpacing what engineering teams could manage manually, and AI-generated code is accelerating that gap. Traversal is built for that challenge, autonomously understanding and reasoning across even the largest, most complex production environments to diagnose, fix, and prevent incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and give them more time to focus on creative, high-impact work.

Today, Traversal operates in mission-critical environments at some of the world’s largest enterprises. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we’ve brought together researchers from institutions including MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, and Cornell with world-class technical staff and operators from companies like Google, Meta, Datadog, ServiceNow, and Citadel Securities to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Traversal is backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Hanabi, NFDG, and American Express Ventures.

## THE ROLE

As a Recruiter, you will own full-cycle hiring for some of Traversal’s most critical roles, initially focused on our Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) team. You’ll partner directly with hiring managers and founders to define hiring strategy, build and manage pipelines, and deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first outreach through offer. You’ll join a lean, high-ownership Talent team, with real latitude to build process and bar as we scale. As the team grows, this role may expand beyond EPD to support hiring across the company.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned roles, initially within EPD and Research: manage everything from intake through offer, including sourcing, screening, and closing
- Partner with leaders to build hiring strategy: calibrate role scope, must-haves, and success profiles, and translate them into effective sourcing and screening plans
- Build and manage active pipelines by proactively sourcing and engaging top candidates, rather than relying solely on inbound applications
- Drive a best-in-class candidate experience, ensuring every candidate has a thoughtful, well-communicated process
- Improve recruiting process and infrastructure by building playbooks that scale with the team
- Represent Traversal acting as a strong ambassador for the company in every candidate interaction

## REQUIREMENTS

- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally including technical hiring at a startup or high-growth company
- Demonstrated ability to source and close candidates independently, without heavy reliance on inbound pipelines
- Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable driving process with engineering, product, and design leaders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- High degree of ownership and comfort operating with ambiguity and limited process
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail across a high volume of concurrent searches
- Genuine curiosity about AI and enterprise software, with the ability to speak credibly to technical candidates

## NICE TO HAVE

- Recruiting experience at an early-stage (Series A/B) AI or developer tooling startup
- Experience recruiting for applied research or ML-heavy roles
- Familiarity with modern ATS and sourcing tools (e.g., Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem)
- Experience building recruiting processes or playbooks from scratch
- Experience recruiting across multiple functions beyond engineering (e.g., go-to-market, operations)
- Experience with AI native recruiting tools (Juicebox, Metaview, etc.)

## COMPENSATION

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $170,000 - $250,000, plus equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are based on location, level, and role. Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

## WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US

Traversal is a place to take on hard, meaningful problems with real ownership from day one. You’ll work alongside people who challenge you to grow, learn constantly, and help define a new category of infrastructure software. We think long term, move quickly, and hold a high bar without taking ourselves too seriously.

We offer competitive salary and equity packages, health insurance, fertility benefits, a great tech setup stipend and flexible time off. Plus in-office snacks, team happy hours and outings, an annual company offsite, and plenty of built in time to collaborate across teams.

Traversal is fully in-office, 5 days a week, based in New York near Madison Square Park. We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.

## About Traversal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Traversal builds an AI-powered Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) platform that autonomously troubleshoots, remediates, and prevents production incidents in complex, large-scale systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; $48M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (with presence in Sweden)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Anish Agarwal (CEO), Raj Agrawal, Ahmed Lone, Raaz Dwivedi

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-driven Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Observability, Incident Management
- **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise engineering and operations teams at large-scale tech and non-tech companies (e.g., American Express, PepsiCo, Capital One, DigitalOcean, Kraken)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To end on-call for good by combining cutting-edge causal ML research with world-class engineering to make self-healing, fully autonomous operations a reality.

## Products & Services
- **AI SRE Platform** (SaaS / self-hosted BYOC): The core product that continuously builds a **Production World Model™** of the system and uses a **Causal Search Engine™** to perform:
  - **Alert Intelligence**: Autonomously triages alerts to catch issues before they become incidents.
  - **Incident RCA**: Traces incidents across services, dependencies, and changes to isolate root cause in minutes.
  - **Self-healing**: Converts diagnosis into automated remediation, compressing recovery time.
  - **Production Support**: Gives engineers natural‑language access to live production state – answers grounded in real‑time telemetry, code, and tribal knowledge.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $48M (3 rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (Seed lead), Kleiner Perkins (Series A lead), Amex Ventures
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 64 employees (LinkedIn, monthly headcount growth +10.8%)
  - Trusted by major enterprises: American Express, PepsiCo, Capital One, DigitalOcean, Kraken, Cloudways
  - Proven results: 70% reduction in MTTR (Cloudways), 38% reduction in high‑severity alerts (PepsiCo), 75% MTTR reduction from deployment
  - Recognized as a “Hot 25 Startups” and “60 AI Disruptors”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Causal ML foundation**: Founders and team are leading researchers in causal machine learning, giving Traversal a unique ability to understand and trace incidents across heterogeneous systems (10+ hops).
- **Production World Model™**: Continuously updated model of the entire system, unlike traditional monitoring that lacks dynamic, causal reasoning.
- **Self‑healing & BYOC**: Automated remediation that works in mission‑critical environments, with a bring‑your‑own‑cloud deployment option that security‑conscious companies prefer.
- **User‑validated efficiency**: Customers report reclaiming thousands of engineering hours per year (e.g., 6,000 hours saved annually at a top crypto exchange).

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening autonomous operations capabilities (self‑healing) and expanding enterprise sales into regulated, high‑scale industries.
- Scaling the team (9 open positions across product, engineering, sales, and security) while maintaining a high‑intensity, research‑driven culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a “builders” culture – high‑intensity, early‑stage execution with outsized ownership. The team combines PhD‑level AI researchers, enterprise infrastructure builders, and high‑stakes operators (ex‑Citadel, ex‑Microsoft Research).
- **Policy**: **Fully in‑office, five days a week** in New York City (near Union Square area). High energy, collaborative environment.
- **Engineering excellence**: Opportunity to work on cutting‑edge causal ML, large‑scale distributed systems, and a product that directly reduces pain for engineers worldwide.
- **Notable perks**: Fast‑growth startup with top‑tier VC backing (Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins); chance to shape the product and culture from an early stage.

## Sources
1. [traversal.com](https://www.traversal.com/)
2. [traversal.com/about](https://www.traversal.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/traversal-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/traversal-ai)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/traversal/faq/workplace-perception)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/traversal](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traversal)

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