Platform Engineer

Metis, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 850,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full medical, dental, and vision

Wellness & L&D stipend

Meals provided (Unlimited Doordash)

$25,000 housing stipend

Job summary

Metis, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer to join their small, product-driven engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and shipping production systems that directly impact customers, all while upholding high standards of code quality.

Your projects will involve scaling the Mantis Platform and optimizing the training stack. The ideal candidate will have strong coding fundamentals in modern languages like Python, Go, or Rust and should be comfortable navigating complex system designs.

Qualifications

• Strong coding fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.).
• Ability to break down ambiguity and ship simple solutions to complex problems.
• Familiarity with system-design and general coding practices.

Responsibilities

• Help scale and work on a core part of our Mantis Platform.
• Optimize our training stack and expand platform scalability.
• Write code and leverage AI tools effectively.

Skills

Strong coding fundamentals

Problem solving

System design

Familiarity with terminal coding

Job description

As a Platform Engineer at Metis, you’ll join a small, product-driven engineering team building modern infrastructure that powers critical workflows for our own training platform. You’ll own projects end-to-end, designing, building, and shipping production systems that directly impact customers. You’ll write production-grade code, reason about systems holistically, and make decisions that tie directly to business outcomes. You will be moving fast while upholding a high bar for code quality, scalability, and simplicity.

What You’ll Do

• Help scale and work on a core part of our Mantis Platform
• Helping to optimize our training stack, work on expanding platform scalability and functionality
• Write code and leverage AI tools effectively to get the highest quality of work done in the fastest time

Requirements

• Strong coding fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.).
• Ability to break down ambiguity and ship simple solutions to complex problems.
• Familiarity with system-design, general coding practices in terminal, and high level thinking
• Base: $150,000–$850,000
• Full medical, dental, and vision
• Wellness & L&D stipend
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided (Unlimited Doordash)
• $25,000 housing stipend

About Metis

Metis helps enterprises and labs build the most reliable AI agents by leveraging post-training. Our platform enables the creation, improvement, and deployment of the most capable frontier agents designed for rigorous, real-world workflows.

Momentum

• 0 → six-figure monthly revenue in the last six weeks
• Working with several Fortune 500 enterprises & frontier AI labs
• Growing 150%+ MoM

Backed by

Y Combinator, CRV, and executives from OpenAI, Google, Mercor, NVIDIA, and others.

As set forth in Metis, Inc.’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.