Traversal
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US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
31
+8 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital
Momentum
35/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Kleiner Perkins 
Sequoia Capital 
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How Traversal hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Traversal scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Traversal is an AI site reliability engineer for large distributed systems, triaging alerts and finding root cause across petabyte-scale telemetry. It reconstructs the causal chain between a symptom and the change that caused it. The founders came from causal inference research in academia.
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WireGuard-native NAT traversal Firezone Blog
ICE and WireGuard gave us two opinions on whether a connection was healthy. We removed one of them and built NAT traversal with pure WireGuard.
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Hand the agent a map: ontology and graph traversal for AI agents
A lakehouse built for 1000x more questions, simplifying fragmented data stacks with one foundation for warehouse-grade performance, storage economics, live federation, and agent-ready context.
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PostgreSQL 19 vs Memgraph: Comparing Graph Traversal Performance
PostgreSQL 19 adds SQL/PGQ graph queries. See how its graph features compare with Memgraph on exact hop traversal performance.
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How notch traversal works on MacBooks
Tailscale now has a full windowed UI. Before that, our app had to tell you it was hidden by The Notch.
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A $0 graph traversal outperforms GPT-5.2 at finding bugs in PRs
We planted 141 bugs in 52 pull requests. A BFS on the call graph found 95%. GPT-5.2 found 56%.
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Formula for Disaster: Chaining EspoCRM
EspoCRM v9.3.3: the built-in formula scripting engine bypasses field-level ACL, enabling an admin to overwrite a path-traversal-sensitive field on file attachments. Combined with an unsanitized file path in the upload storage layer, this yields arbitrary
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The Breakneck Future of Codegen: Why AI SWE Must Be Matched with AI SRE
AI codegen is transforming software development - but as speed and complexity increase, so does fragility.
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Sep 8, 2025 Tackling Software's Toughest Challenge: A DSI Member's Startup Journey Read Article
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Faculty-led startup is using AI to reimagine software reliability
Cornell Tech Assistant Professor Raaz Dwivedi has co-founded Traversal, a startup emerging from stealth this week with a mission: to transform how modern software systems detect and resolve outages using artificial intelligence.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Traversal over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
51
Postings analysed
29
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
Python17%
TypeScript10%
SQL7%
Rust7%
Frameworks & libraries
FastAPI10%
React.js7%
Databases
Pinecone10%
PostgreSQL10%
Redis7%
Cloud & platforms
Datadog100%
Kubernetes28%
AWS14%
Amazon ECS10%
AI & ML
LLM21%
Claude10%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$300k
Typical range
$150k – $400k
Open positions
23
19
Jobs
Middle
42.1%
Senior
42.1%
Staff
10.5%
Architect
5.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 8 | $300k | $150k – $300k |
| Senior | 8 | $300k | $200k – $400k |
| Staff | 2 | $288k | $275k – $300k |
| Architect | 1 | $300k | $300k |
Highest paying role
Senior Legal Counsel
$400k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Traversal
By role, level and city, against the market · 23 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
31
5 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
478 days
faster than 4% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
23% ▲
Solutions
18% ▲
Marketing
14% ▼
HR
9% ▼
Operations
9% ▼
AI/ML
5% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Teams to stack
Oct 2026
Added Cursor to stack
Oct 2026
Added Claude Code to stack
Oct 2026
Added Reddit to stack
Sep 2026
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added GDPR to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added ITSM to stack
Sep 2026
Added PagerDuty to stack
Sep 2026
Added New Relic to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dynatrace to stack
Sep 2026
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Where the company hires and what each office is for
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2
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1
Countries
1
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New York
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New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
18 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 39% engineering 10-50 est. staff $282k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, HR, Marketing
151 West 26th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, US
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