Software Engineering Intern

TraceRoot.AI (YC S25); San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 34,440 - 48,216; Full time

Job summary

TraceRoot.AI (YC S25) in San Francisco is looking for an engineering intern to collaborate closely with founders. You'll work on AI systems, user features, and backend infrastructure, engaging in a fast-paced environment.

This role requires strong full-stack skills in React, TypeScript, and Node.js, as well as a proactive mindset focused on results. Interns will continuously improve AI outputs and maintain robust infrastructure for real-time apps.

If you enjoy fast-paced development and want to see immediate results from your work, apply now!

Qualifications

• Strong full-stack experience with React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Strong sense of ownership and autonomy.
• Ability to communicate clearly and work collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Talk to users to improve AI and UX.
• Ship full-stack features and build foundational components.
• Maintain open-source projects for developer community.
• Improve AI performance and reliability.
• Build infrastructure for telemetry event processing.

Skills

Full-stack experience with React

TypeScript

Node.js

Strong communicator

Execution-driven

Job description

As the engineering intern 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