Senior Backend Engineer, Core API & Distributed Systems

Weights & Biases; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life insurance

401(k) with a generous employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch each day

Job summary

Weights & Biases is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and evolve core systems for their platform. In this role, you will work on backend infrastructure that supports innovation and growth.

Key responsibilities include defining API standards, maintaining internal tooling, and contributing to distributed operations. A strong foundation in backend engineering is essential, along with a focus on system performance and scalability.

Join us for a dynamic opportunity at a rapidly growing company!

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience designing and evolving APIs (REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC).

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve core backend systems and shared infrastructure.
• Maintain internal schema and code generation tooling.
• Contribute to large-scale concurrent and distributed operations.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Designing and maintaining distributed systems

API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)

Proficiency in Go or Python

Implementing concurrency and parallelism

Diagnosing system performance

Tools

GraphQL

gRPC

Distributed systems

Job description

Weights & Biases is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and evolve core systems for their platform. In this role, you will work on backend infrastructure that supports innovation and growth.

Key responsibilities include defining API standards, maintaining internal tooling, and contributing to distributed operations. A strong foundation in backend engineering is essential, along with a focus on system performance and scalability.

Join us for a dynamic opportunity at a rapidly growing company!