Meter · 5 months ago
Backend Engineer, Models
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$160K/yr - $230K/yrMeter is a company focused on unifying the full networking stack and making it autonomous through their neural network-driven system, Meter Zero. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to design and implement core data interfaces, ensuring efficient data access and infrastructure for model development and real-time inference.
Information TechnologyInternetIT InfrastructureSoftware
Responsibilities
Design and implement the Zero API: a unified interface for accessing training, evaluation, and deployment data across raw, transformed, and feature-engineered layers
Ensure backwards compatibility and feature versioning across constantly evolving schemas
Build scalable pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and serving petabytes of data across Kafka, Postgres, and Clickhouse
Create CI/CD workflows that evolve the API in lockstep with changes to the underlying data schema
Enable fine-grained querying of historical and real-time data for any network, at any point in time
Help define and enforce the principle of "smart data, dumb functions": doing as much as possible in the data layer to keep downstream code minimal
Collaborate with modelers to co-design training and evaluation pipelines that are reproducible, debuggable, and fast
Own performance across key endpoints to meet real-time serving constraints
Qualification
Required
Experience designing large-scale data infrastructure, ideally across batch and streaming modes
Deep thinking about schema design, versioning, and data quality
Care about making systems simple to use and hard to misuse
Enjoy partnering closely with research or modeling teams
Thrive in early-stage environments and like building from scratch
Preferred
Experience with Kafka, Postgres, Clickhouse
Experience with Python, Go
Experience with AWS, Azure
Benefits
Medical, dental & vision coverage for you and your dependents
Annual memberships to One Medical, Headspace, and Wellhub
401k (traditional and Roth options)
Flexible time off
Commuter benefits
Parental leave
Onsite meals (San Francisco office)
Company
Meter
Meter provides managed network services with proprietary hardware and software, simplifying IT and connectivity.
Founded in 2015
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$255MKey Investors
General CatalystSam AltmanSequoia Capital
2025-06-12Series C· $170M
2024-02-12Series B· $35M
2022-05-23Series B· $38M
Leadership Team
Andrew Archibald
Executive Operations + EA to CEO and President
Christina Leupp
Chief Marketing Officer
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