Description:

Weights & Biases is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the scaling of metrics and storage systems for their AI developer platform.
The company aims to provide excellent tools for ML practitioners to build better models, having evolved from an experiment tracking product to a comprehensive platform.
The Staff Engineer will be responsible for making critical technical decisions to optimize performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of systems that handle petabytes of data.
This role involves setting the technical direction for the team and balancing short-term deliverables with long-term architectural improvements.
The engineer will collaborate closely with product management, revenue teams, and other engineering groups to enhance the Models product used by over 2,500 AI teams globally.
Responsibilities include designing scalable infrastructure, maintaining existing services, participating in customer support rotations, and mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 8+ years of experience in software engineering, particularly in data platforms and/or distributed systems.
Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, or Typescript are required.
Extensive experience in designing and scaling customer-facing APIs in production environments is essential, ideally with systems like MySQL, Postgres, Clickhouse, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, and Kafka.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and major cloud providers like GCP, AWS, or Azure is necessary.

The position offers flexible time off to support work-life balance.
Employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage, including family coverage options.
Weights & Biases promotes a remote-first culture with the option for in-office flexibility in San Francisco.
A home office budget is provided, along with a new high-powered laptop.
The company offers a competitive salary and equity package.
Employees are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave in the U.S.
A 401(k) plan is available for U.S. employees.
Supplemental benefits may vary based on location, and additional information can be explored by country.