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As described on Meter.ai, we're building models in a closed-loop system that takes (as input) real-time telemetry, logs, and events on the network to autonomously troubleshoot, improve performance, and resolve issues.\r\nTo make this possible, we don't just need great models; we need infrastructure that gives those models clean, versioned, low-latency access to the right data, across training, evaluation, and deployment.\r\nWhy this role matters\r\nEvery 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.\r\nThis 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.\r\nWhat you\\'ll do\r\nDesign and implement the Models API: a unified interface for accessing training, evaluation, and deployment data across raw, transformed, and feature-engineered layers\r\nEnsure backwards compatibility and feature versioning across constantly evolving schemas\r\nBuild scalable pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and serving petabytes of data across Kafka, Postgres, and Clickhouse\r\nCreate CI/CD workflows that evolve the API in lockstep with changes to the underlying data schema\r\nEnable fine-grained querying of historical and real-time data for any network, at any point in time\r\nHelp define and enforce the principle of \"smart data, dumb functions\": doing as much as possible in the data layer to keep downstream code minimal\r\nCollaborate with modelers to co-design training and evaluation pipelines that are reproducible, debuggable, and fast\r\nOwn performance across key endpoints to meet real-time serving constraints\r\nYou may be a fit if you\r\nHave experience designing large-scale data infrastructure, ideally across batch and streaming modes\r\nThink deeply about schema design, versioning, and data quality\r\nCare about making systems simple to use and hard to misuse\r\nEnjoy partnering closely with research or modeling teams\r\nThrive in early-stage environments and like building from scratch\r\nStack we use\r\nKafka, Postgres, Clickhouse\r\nPython, Go\r\nAWS, Azure\r\nCompensation\r\nWe 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.\r\nThe estimated salary range for this role is $160,000 - $230,000 depending on experience, and it is eligible for equity in Meter. 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