Senior Software Engineer, Metrics Platform - Weights & Biases
Weights & Biases · Bellevue, WA · 5 days ago
Information Technology$139k–$204k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Metrics Platform team builds and scales the infrastructure behind Weights & Biases' flagship Models product, which powers experiment tracking and analytics for over 2,500 of the world’s leading AI and ML teams. The team focuses on data ingestion, storage, and querying at a petabyte scale, optimizing for performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Lead efforts to scale our metrics and storage systems to meet the needs of our most advanced customers.
- Set technical direction, balancing near-term deliverables with long-term architectural improvements.
- Partner with product, revenue, and engineering teams across W&B to evolve our platform and ensure it continues to meet customer demands.
- Help mentor engineers and drive best practices across the organization.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on backend performance 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, Clickhouse, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, or Kafka.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
Qualifications
- Preferred Experience: mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with other business functions.
- Background in large-scale metrics, logging, or analytics systems.
- Familiarity with designing cost-optimized storage and query infrastructure.
Skills
- You love building scalable systems that handle massive amounts of data efficiently.
- You’re curious about how ML teams use metrics and analytics to accelerate research.
- You’re an expert in distributed systems and API design.
Benefits
- The base salary range for this role is $139,000 to $204,000.
- We offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, company-paid 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, and a work culture focused on innovative disruption.
Pay
The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation.
Schedule
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:
- 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
- Able 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