KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Embed and drive SRE Agent adoption: Work onsite and in regular contact with 2–4 strategic customer teams to deploy the SRE Agent, configure tools and connectors, and embed AI actions across their incident management lifecycle to drive adoption and value
Build and contribute core agent capabilities: Scope, design, and build reusable agent tools, connectors, and skills on the agent’s extensibility surfaces, shipping them through the product team's repos, review process, and evaluation gates.
Run pilots and unblock customer adoption: Stand up new agentic capabilities with strategic accounts first, gather eval data, identify technical blockers (permissions, telemetry, missing connectors), and build production fixes directly into the product.
Integrate with production stacks and progressive delivery: Connect the SRE Agent to IaC (Terraform, Pulumi), GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD pipelines, and observability platforms, guiding customers safely from AI-assisted to autonomous operations.
Set technical direction and feedback insights: Define 3–6 month technical roadmaps across assigned accounts, provide architectural guidance to product managers and engineering managers, and bring customer friction and eval data back to the core team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
8+ years of experience building and shipping production software across team boundaries (assessed against PagerDuty Staff Engineer / SDE V expectations).
Hands-on experience with LLM and agent systems in production, including agent development, tool-use frameworks (MCP or equivalent), evaluation pipelines, and guardrail design.
Customer-facing skills. You can run a technical design session with a customer’s engineers and present the business case to their leadership.
Comfortable with ambiguity. You can start from a vague problem statement in an unfamiliar environment and get to working software without much direction. Former founders and founding engineers tend to do well in this role.
A record of shipping software that got adopted, and the judgment to recognize which customer requests generalize and when the right answer is not to build.
Infrastructure & Deployment expertise: Demonstrated experience with Terraform or Pulumi at scale, GitOps (ArgoCD or equivalent), CI/CD pipeline design, and progressive delivery patterns (canary, blue/green, soak periods).
Willingness to travel 25–50% during active customer engagements.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Practical operational knowledge of incident management and observability concepts (on-call, postmortems, SLOs/SLIs, alerting).
Customer-facing technical consulting, forward-deployed engineering, or solutions architecture experience on top of a core software engineering background.
Background as a founder or founding engineer accustomed to navigating high ambiguity and driving unscripted problem-solving.
Experience with policy-as-code, fine-grained permissioning, or safety guardrail patterns for agent-driven automation.
Production experience with PagerDuty or competing digital operations and incident management platforms.
Active open-source contributions to the AI agent or Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem.
This role is expected to work from the PagerDuty office in London or a client site at least 2 days a week.
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Where we work
PagerDuty operates a hybrid work model with offices in 8 major cities: Atlanta, Lisbon, London, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. While we offer flexibility within our established locations, we cannot employ candidates residing in:
Location restrictions
- Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
- Canada: Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon
- United States: Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming
- Candidates must reside in an eligible location, which vary by role.
How we work
Our values guide how we support customers, collaborate with colleagues, develop products, and foster a culture of belonging. They define not just our actions, but what it means to be Dutonian.
People Leaders at PagerDuty are responsible for creating high performance environments that drive accountability. PagerDuty has four key dimensions that define our Leadership Impact: Lead Self, Lead the Team, Lead the Business, and Lead the Future. Each dimension has three associated competencies to give leaders a shared language for guiding their development, career, promotion, and succession planning discussions. Our Manager Expectations serve as a practical guide for managers to understand their responsibilities, prioritize their efforts, and drive engagement and performance.
What we offer
As a global organization, our total rewards approach is competitive with industry standards and aligned with local laws and regulations. Learn more, including country-specific offerings, on our benefits site.
Your package may include
Competitive salary
Comprehensive benefits package
Flexible work arrangements
Company equity*
ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)*
Retirement or pension plan*
Generous paid vacation time
Paid holidays and sick leave
Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*
Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
Company-wide hack weeks
Mental wellness programs
Eligibility may vary by role, region, and tenure
About PagerDuty
PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is an AI-powered platform that empowers business resilience and drives operational efficiency for enterprises. With a generative AI assistant at its core, PagerDuty empowers teams to detect and resolve issues in real time, orchestrate complex workflows, and drive continuous improvement across their digital operations. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, PagerDuty is essential for delivering always-on digital experiences to modern businesses
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