# Founding Engineer

**Company:** [TraceRoot.AI](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/tracerootai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, US
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Mid
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 120K–220K/yr
**Category:** Aerospace Engineering
**Listed:** 2026-03-24

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/tracerootai/founding-engineer-84777)

## Job description

As the founding engineer at TraceRoot, you’ll work side-by-side with the founders to build the product and shape our engineering culture from the ground up.  
You’ll wear many hats, touching everything from AI systems and user-facing features to backend infrastructure and open-source SDKs.

We move fast, debate hard, and execute even harder, shipping new features weekly and iterating live with users. You’ll work in person with the founders at least 3 days a week, white boarding, coding, and shipping together. If you love building fast, solving hard problems head-on, and seeing your code impact real users within days, you’ll fit right in.

### What You’ll Do

-   **Talk to users often** to deeply understand how to improve TraceRoot’s AI and UX (you can expect to spend 10-20% of your time on support)
-   **Ship full-stack features** and build the foundational building blocks that users will use to build their apps seamlessly
-   **Maintain our open-source projects** to help grow and engage our developer community
-   **Improve our AI agents’ performance, reliability, and edge-case handling** to continuously enhance AI output quality (for both function + design)
-   **Build robust infrastructure** for our end-to-end platform to power millions of telemetry events

### Requirements

-   **Strong full-stack experience with React, TypeScript, and Node.js:** you’ve shipped production features end-to-end
-   **Strong sense of ownership:** you’re autonomous and own features from start to finish
-   **Strong communicator:** you write clearly, think rigorously, and can collaborate well within small teams
-   **Scrappy and execution-driven:** you move fast, make pragmatic decisions, and care about results over process, bias for action is in your DNA.
-   **Relentless builder mindset:** you thrive under pressure, love solving hard problems, and make things happen with limited resources

### Preferred Experience

-   **Multi-agent systems:** you’ve designed or shipped multi-agent systems, AI-powered coding tools, LLM orchestration frameworks, or automated code workflows
-   **Observability tooling:** you’ve built or contributed to systems like tracing pipelines, logging, search infra, metrics platforms, or other developer-facing observability tools
-   **Startup experience:** you’ve worked at early-stage startups or have been a founder yourself

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### Interview Process

We’ll review your resume and reach out to begin the interview process if there’s a fit.

## Other open roles at TraceRoot.AI

- [Developer Marketing Intern](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/tracerootai/developer-marketing-intern-105076) — San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US; CA)
- [Founding GTM](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/tracerootai/founding-gtm-103799) — San Francisco, CA, US
- [Software Engineering Intern](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/tracerootai/software-engineering-intern-86084) — San Francisco, CA, US / Remote

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