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Documented stack

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languageGoNamed directly as Sierra's backend systems language across independent job postings (frontend, payments infrastructure) and confirmed in production use for Sierra's internal agent-runner infrastructure.confirmed
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TypeScriptFrontend language, paired with React.confirmed
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PythonConfirmed for Sierra Research's open-source evaluation tooling (tau-bench family, all Python repos). Not directly confirmed as a production agent-platform language — only listed as one acceptable option among Go/Scala/Python in a data-platform job posting.inferred
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frontendReactconfirmed
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backend-frameworkGraphQLAPI layer between the React/TypeScript frontend and the Go backend, implemented with gqlgen.confirmed
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hostingAWSExplicitly named as Sierra's cloud provider by the SRE team's own posting (distinct from a separate, weaker 'AWS, GCP, or Azure' generic candidate-skills list found in another posting, which was not used as evidence).confirmed
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Terraformconfirmed
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KubernetesConfirmed running Sierra's internal 'Pinecone' agent-runner platform. Not separately confirmed for the customer-facing production agent runtime, though plausible given shared infrastructure culture. Sierra states the same infrastructure also underpins Ghostwriter, its customer-facing "agent for building agents" — so this extends beyond internal tooling.confirmed
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observabilityDatadogNamed as one of several acceptable observability tools (alongside Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) in two independent job postings, always as an 'e.g.' example rather than an explicit 'we use X' statement. Included at inferred confidence only because the same short list recurs independently across two job families.inferred
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queueRedisRedis Streams used for live communication within Sierra's internal agent-runner platform (Pinecone). Not separately confirmed for the core customer-facing product.confirmed
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data-pipelineApache IcebergSierra's own data lakehouse table format for its Agent Data Platform.confirmed
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orchestrationCustom multi-model orchestration ("Constellation of Models")Sierra deliberately avoids single-vendor lock-in: agents are assembled from 15+ frontier, open-weight, and proprietary models, routed per task (latency-sensitive tool calling, classification, long-context reasoning, tone) by a custom orchestration layer. Sierra's own communications do not name the specific model vendors behind this system for the production platform.confirmed
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ai-evalCustom LLM-as-judge evaluation ("Monitors")In-house always-on evaluation layer; each monitor goes through its own evaluation loop grounded in team-labeled conversations and multi-model agreement.confirmed
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τ-bench / τ²-bench / τ³-bench / μ-bench (in-house benchmark suite)Sierra Research's actively-maintained open-source benchmark suite for evaluating tool-using conversational agents across text, voice, and knowledge-retrieval domains.confirmed
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inference-infraLiteLLMConfirmed via Sierra Research's own open-source code as the model-provider abstraction layer for the tau-bench evaluation tooling. Not confirmed for the production agent-serving path.inferred
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llm-providerOpenAIOpenAI's Codex is confirmed in company-wide internal use as a coding agent, and Sierra's own tau2-bench voice benchmark integrates OpenAI's realtime API as a supported provider. Sierra has not publicly confirmed OpenAI as a model provider behind its customer-facing agent platform — the company deliberately describes a vendor-agnostic 'constellation of models' without naming production vendors.inferred
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AnthropicClaude Code confirmed in company-wide internal engineering use. Not confirmed as a named production-platform model vendor — same caveat as the OpenAI entry. The Pinecone post also references Anthropic model names in default internal routing patterns.inferred
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internal-toolsGitHubconfirmed
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Slackconfirmed
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Linearconfirmed
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CursorAI coding tool used company-wide by engineers.confirmed
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Codex (OpenAI)AI coding agent used company-wide by engineers.confirmed
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Claude Code (Anthropic)AI coding agent used company-wide by engineers.confirmed
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