Job Description
As a Staff Engineer, you'll lead the effort to scale our metrics and storage systems, ensuring they meet the complex demands of our most advanced customers. You’ll play an instrumental role in the evolution of our platform as we grow our capability to ingest and query petabytes of data, making critical technical decisions that optimize the performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of our systems.
You will set the technical direction for the team, guiding the organization to balance short-term deliverables with strategic, long-term architectural improvements. You'll partner closely with product management, revenue teams, and other engineering groups to shape and deliver the future of W&B’s flagship Models product, supporting experiment tracking and analytics utilized by over 2,500 leading machine learning and AI teams worldwide.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement infrastructure that is scalable, efficient, and tailored to customer needs.Lead the maintenance and monitoring of existing services, identifying and executing necessary improvements to ensure ongoing performance and reliability.Participate in team-wide rotations to respond to customer support issues and site outages.Communicate and collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes.Lead and mentor junior engineers, supporting their professional growth and development within the company.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 (e.g., Python, Go, Typescript).Extensive experience designing and scaling customer-facing APIs in production environments, ideally leveraging systems like MySQL, Postgres, Clickhouse, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and major cloud providers (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).Our benefits:
🏝️ Flexible time off🩺 Medical, Dental, and Vision for employees and Family Coverage🏠 Remote first culture with in-office flexibility in San Francisco💵 Home office budget with a new high-powered laptop🥇 Truly competitive salary and equity🚼 12 weeks of Parental leave (U.S. specific)📈 401(k) (U.S. specific)Supplemental benefits may be available depending on your locationExplore benefits by country
