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Staff+ Software Engineer, ML Sampling Path
Menlo Ventures PortfolioSan Francisco, CA · full time · Staff
$320,000 – $485,000
Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
This role owns the production systems that process every token Claude generates, managing latency and reliability across all platforms at massive scale. It suits engineers experienced in high-QPS distributed systems who thrive owning operational excellence and making critical trade-offs between performance, reliability, and cost.
Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- designed, built, and operated high QPS systems at global scale
- accountable for production systems including incident response and postmortems
- strong foundation in distributed systems: replication, consistency tradeoffs, failure modes
- design systems for graceful degradation
- shipped broad changes to mission critical systems
Nice to have
- 8+ years of industry software engineering experience
- familiarity with LLM inference systems and transformer-based models