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Avride · 3 weeks ago

Backend Engineer - Metrics Infrastructure

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

Avride is a company focused on building infrastructure and tools for metrics related to autonomous vehicles and delivery robots. The role involves designing, developing, and operating the metrics platform, ensuring efficient data models and scalable pipelines while collaborating closely with various teams.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesRobotics

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Own the metrics platform: clear schemas, storage/layouts for efficient inserts and fast reads, simple versioning

Build and maintain the framework for writing/running metrics (interfaces, examples, local run, CI/compat checks)

Create a test system for metrics and pipelines (unit / contract / regression on synthetic and sampled data)

Operate the compute and storage paths in production; monitor, debug, and keep the system stable and cost-aware

Partner with metric authors and with development/analytics/QA to plan changes and land them safely

Qualification

PythonSQLData structures & algorithmsDatabases PostgreSQLDatabases ClickHouseWorkflow orchestrationData libs & validationContainers & orchestrationBuilding web servicesC++ exposureInfrastructure for ML metricsParquet & object-storage

Required

Python in production, including async (e.g., asyncio, aiohttp, FastAPI)

Strong SQL (JOINs, window functions, CTEs); ability to read plans and speed up slow queries

Data structures & algorithms—know when O(nlog⁡n) matters and choose the right structures

Experience with databases: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse; understanding OLAP vs. OLTP trade-offs

Workflow orchestration experience (Airflow / Argo / Prefect / Dagster—any is fine)

Data libs & validation: NumPy, pandas, Pydantic (or equivalents)

Containers & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes

Experience building web services (Django / FastAPI / Flask—stack flexible)

Preferred

C++ exposure (reading, small changes, or components in the compute graph)

Infrastructure for ML-adjacent metrics/evaluation

Parquet & object-storage layout/partitioning; Kafka/task queues; basic observability (logs/metrics/traces)

Company

Avride

Avride is a developer and operator of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots.

Founded in 2017

Austin, Texas, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.avride.ai

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