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Metis, Inc.

Platform Engineer

San Francisco, California

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Role family
Engineering
Seniority
Mid level
Stated salary
$150,000 – $850,000 per year
Country
US
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
28 Sept 2026

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About the Role

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

Compensation & Benefits

Base: $150,000–$850,000

Significant Equity

Full medical, dental, and vision

Wellness & L&D stipend

Equinox membership

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.

Original posting on Metis, Inc.'s site ↗

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