About SIGQ Inc.
At SIGQ Inc., we are building next-generation solutions for incident response, combining AI agents, structured knowledge, and battle-tested operational practices. Our flagship product — SIGQ Copilot — is an AI-powered assistant that supports incident commanders during high-pressure situations with decision support, documentation, and postmortem generation.
We work with some of Japan's leading enterprises in finance, law, and SaaS, and are expanding globally. Our mission is to empower incident commanders to lead reliable services with confidence.
Role Overview
This is a
full-time engineering position
for professionals with experience leading incident management in SaaS environments. The role spans both backend development and
AI/ML-driven agent architecture
, requiring technical depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and applied machine learning.
You will be a
core member of our product engineering team
, owning system design and collaborating across functions (legal, compliance, SRE, AI research) to evolve our product into a robust, intelligent assistant for real-world incident response.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage in technical and business communication with Japanese enterprise customers, ensuring smooth collaboration and culturally aligned delivery
- Drive the
design and development
of our AI agent for incident management using TypeScript and Go - Commit
backend development
, including API services, integration layers, and workflow engines - Design and optimize
data pipelines
across GCP services (GKE, BigQuery) and distributed data stores (ClickHouse, Bigtable, etc.) - Collaborate with ML/LLM engineers to integrate custom classification models and structured prompts into the product
- Propose and implement scalable architectures for
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
, embedding pipelines, and incident knowledge graphs - Participate in incident-related product planning and internal use of Copilot
- Communicate cross-functionally with stakeholders (SREs, product owners, legal teams, external clients)
Requirements
- Proven experience
leading incident management practices at a SaaS company - Strong communication skills, with the ability to discuss topics from
multiple stakeholder perspectives - Basic communication ability in English
(spoken and written) and native level Japanese - Bachelor's degree
in Computer Science, Information Engineering, or a related field (Master's+ preferred) - Work on-site at our Tsukuba office
(Ibaraki Prefecture)
at least 3 days a week - Experience developing and operating
large-scale services
using
TypeScript
or
Go - Hands-on experience with
GCP
, especially GKE, BigQuery, and CI/CD in Kubernetes environments - Experience using
distributed databases
in production, such as ClickHouse, Bigtable, Redshift, or equivalent - Interest or experience in developing systems using
machine learning or LLMs (e.g., RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation)
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in postmortem analysis, SEV classification, or incident review workflows
- Familiarity with Slack bots, Notion APIs, or observability platforms (e.g., Datadog)
- Publications or open-source contributions in incident management, AI agents, or reliability engineering
Location & Workstyle
- Office:
5-minute walk from Tsukuba Station
, Ibaraki, Japan - Hybrid
work model, with minimum
3 days/week on-site - Flexible hours (we value outcome > clock-in time)
Compensation & Benefits
- Annual Salary
: Competitive, based on experience and capability - Full benefits
including health insurance, paid holidays, commuter support - Stock option plan
available for high-performing early members - Opportunities to attend global conferences or research collaborations
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