Staff Software Engineer, Metrics- Weights & Biases
About The Position
The Metrics and Storage team at Weights & Biases builds the infrastructure that powers our flagship Models product, supporting experiment tracking and analytics for more than 2,500 leading AI and ML teams worldwide. We focus on scaling ingestion, storage, and query systems to handle petabytes of data while ensuring performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness for our customers. As a Staff Engineer on the Metrics and Storage team, you’ll lead efforts to scale our systems to meet the demands of our most advanced customers. You’ll own critical technical decisions around data ingestion and querying, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term architectural evolution. This role partners closely with product, revenue, and engineering teams across W&B to shape the future of our platform, ensuring that customers can rely on our infrastructure for training insights and large-scale analytics. You’ll also mentor engineers and contribute to the overall growth and strength of the team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on data platforms and/or distributed systems
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, TypeScript, etc.)
- Experience designing and scaling customer-facing APIs in production, ideally leveraging systems such as MySQL, Postgres, Clickhouse, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, or Kafka
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
Nice To Haves
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and fostering technical growth
- Background in building high-scale metrics, logging, or analytics systems
- Familiarity with trade-offs in designing cost-optimized storage and query infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Lead efforts to scale our systems to meet the demands of our most advanced customers.
- Own critical technical decisions around data ingestion and querying, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term architectural evolution.
- Partner closely with product, revenue, and engineering teams across W&B to shape the future of our platform, ensuring that customers can rely on our infrastructure for training insights and large-scale analytics.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to the overall growth and strength of the team.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Voluntary supplemental life insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
- 401(k) with a generous employer match
- Flexible PTO
- Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
- A casual work environment
- A work culture focused on innovative disruption
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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