Remote AI SRE Backend Engineer — Incident Mastery

Blumberg Capital Company; Cupertino (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Blumberg Capital Company is seeking a skilled backend engineer to join our engineering team in Cupertino or remote. You will build the agent fleet that investigates live production incidents, design multi-agent orchestration, and wire agents to observability data.

You’ll work on guardrails, evaluation harnesses, and modern tooling while shipping production-grade systems that operate with autonomy and safety in mind.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering background in distributed systems.
• Experience building agentic systems with tool use, function calling, multi-step planning and long-running loops.
• Judgment about autonomy and safety in unattended agent behavior.
• Ability to reason about production incidents with SRE instincts.

Responsibilities

• Build the agent fleet that investigates live production incidents: gathering context, forming hypotheses, testing against telemetry, and synthesising a root cause.
• Design multi-agent orchestration: coordinator loops, specialised sub-agents, and handoffs between them.
• Wire agents to real observability data through MCP tools: metrics, logs, traces, Kubernetes state, profiles.
• Build evaluation harnesses to determine true correctness of investigations.
• Ship guardrails: least-privilege surfaces, read-only boundaries, and strict permission models for autonomous operation.

Skills

Agentic systems

Tool use

Function calling

Multi-step planning

Long-running loops

Autonomy safety judgment

SRE instincts

Tools

Go

Python

MCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Blumberg Capital Company is seeking a skilled backend engineer to join our engineering team in Cupertino or remote. You will build the agent fleet that investigates live production incidents, design multi-agent orchestration, and wire agents to observability data.

You’ll work on guardrails, evaluation harnesses, and modern tooling while shipping production-grade systems that operate with autonomy and safety in mind.