Backend Engineer, Models

Meter

• $160K — $230K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in backend data systems design and architecture
  • Proficiency in both batch and streaming data processing
  • Strong understanding of data schema design, versioning, and data quality
  • Experience in working closely with data modeling or research teams
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced, early-stage startup environments

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement the Zero API for unified data access
  • Ensure backwards compatibility and feature versioning of data schemas
  • Build scalable data pipelines using Kafka, Postgres, and Clickhouse
  • Create CI/CD workflows aligning API with data schema changes
  • Enable fine-grained querying of historical and real-time network data
  • Promote the principle of 'smart data, dumb functions' in system design
  • Collaborate with modeling teams to refine training and evaluation pipelines
  • Monitor and optimize performance across key API endpoints

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
  • Annual wellness memberships, including One Medical and Headspace
  • 401k retirement plan with both traditional and Roth options
  • Flexible paid time off to promote work-life balance
  • Commuter benefits to ease travel expenses
  • Generous parental leave policy for new parents
  • Free onsite meals for employees in the San Francisco office
Full Job Description


Why this role matters

Every Meter network deployed in the field is a rich data source for our Models team. But without careful infrastructure design, this data becomes fragmented, stale, or inconsistent. Your job is to make sure that never happens. You'll own the core data interface that powers our model development, experimentation, evaluation, and real-time inference.

This is a foundational role with outsized impact. Your work will define how quickly we can train new models, how reliably we can evaluate them, and how seamlessly they can operate in production across hundreds of real-world networks. You'll partner tightly with modelers to ship systems that feel elegant, scalable, and bulletproof.

What you'll do
  • Design and implement the Models 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
You may be a fit if you:
  • Have experience designing large-scale data infrastructure, ideally across batch and streaming modes
  • Think deeply 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
Stack we use
  • Kafka, Postgres, Clickhouse
  • Python, Go
  • AWS, Azure
Compensation

We think about Meter's compensation package as a combination of salary, equity, benefits, and the experience of working with a talented team to make the biggest impact of your career.

The estimated salary range for this role is $160,000 - $230,000 depending on experience, and it is eligible for equity in Meter. We also offer:
  • 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)

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