Staff Software Engineer – Performance, Weights & Biases

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Assume technical leadership for intricate performance challenges across the W&B platform and its infrastructure.

• Design and oversee experiments aimed at enhancing system scalability and reducing latency.

• Create standardized benchmarking and load-testing frameworks.

• Propel initiatives to avert performance regressions across various product surfaces.

• Collaborate effectively with product, infrastructure, and SRE teams.

• Analyze system behavior, contribute to architecture, and empower teams to measure and consistently enhance performance.

• Integrate performance considerations into development through data, automation, and teamwork.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience as a software engineer, with a minimum of 2 years dedicated to performance optimization, systems scalability, or observability.

• Expertise in at least one of Go, Python, or TypeScript, along with strong systems-level debugging and profiling capabilities.

• Comprehensive understanding of distributed systems concepts, including caching, queuing, concurrency, and resource contention.

• Experience in designing and implementing load testing, benchmarking, or performance regression frameworks.

• Familiarity with metrics and tracing systems such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog, as well as performance data analysis.

• Proven experience in integrating performance measurement into CI/CD pipelines.

• Ability to design experiments, analyze extensive datasets, and derive actionable insights.

• Demonstrated success in driving cross-functional technical initiatives from conception to implementation.

• Must meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements: be a U.S. person, able to access export-controlled information without authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain authorization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Discretionary bonus.

• Equity awards.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - fully covered by CoreWeave.

• Company-paid Life Insurance.

• Optional supplemental life insurance.

• Short and long-term disability insurance.

• Flexible Spending Account.

• Health Savings Account.

• Tuition Reimbursement.

• Opportunity 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 provided daily in our office and data center locations.

• A casual work environment.

• A work culture centered on innovative disruption.