Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. We help teams launch products faster, iterate on pricing quickly, and deliver a first-class billing experience—all with speed, control, and confidence.
Job Description
About the Role
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The Infrastructure team builds foundational systems at scale. We're hundreds o billions of events per day through world scale custom streaming infrastructure, running invoice computations that push the limits of distributed systems, and building platforms that need to be correct, fast, and efficient simultaneously.
Work spans the full infrastructure stack—from streaming platforms ingesting usage data, to huge offline batch jobs, to the observability and deployment tooling that keeps everything running reliably. Every platform you build multiplies the effectiveness of the entire engineering org. If you're energized by hard technical challenges, building infrastructure that becomes a competitive moat, and operating systems at world scale, this is the role for you.
What You'll Do
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- Build platforms that scale: Design and operate foundational infrastructure—Kubernetes clusters, Kafka streaming platforms, Spark batch processing, observability systems—that handle billions of events and enable Metronome to grow with minimal friction.
- Enable product velocity: Create golden paths, abstractions, and tooling that let engineers ship faster and more reliably without becoming infrastructure experts themselves.
- Enable reliability as the product: Take accountability for system uptime, performance, and correctness. Build monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems that enable the entire team catch problems before customers notice.
- Drive technical direction: Shape Metronome's infrastructure strategy, make platform-level architectural decisions, and mentor engineers across the organization.
Impact You'll Have
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- Multiply engineering effectiveness: Every tool you build, every deployment pipeline you improve, every observability gap you close makes dozens of engineers more productive. Your infrastructure decisions directly impact what and how fast the company can ship.
- Power mission-critical workloads: Our infrastructure processes financial data for companies like Confluent, OpenAI and Anthropic—where accuracy, performance, and reliability aren't nice-to-haves, they're requirements. You'll build systems where correctness matters and downtime has real consequences.
- Shape how we scale: You'll have a real voice in how we architect systems to handle 10x growth, which technologies we bet on, and how we build a world-class infrastructure organization.
Qualifications
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- 5+ years building infrastructure systems: Hands-on experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, data pipelines, observability, CI/CD, or other foundational platforms.
- Ownership of production systems: Track record of operating mission-critical infrastructure with strong focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Force multiplier mindset: You build platforms that enable others. You create abstractions that make complex systems approachable. You think about developer experience as a first-class concern.
- Cross-functional collaboration: You partner effectively with product teams, communicate technical decisions clearly, and mentor engineers across experience levels.
Tech stack
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The main expectation for the role is you’re excited to learn and work with whatever technologies make the most sense for the problem at hand. That said, our current tech stack includes:
- Cloud Infrastructure (AWS: EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, and more)
- Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Streaming & Batch Processing (Kafka, Kafka Streams, Spark)
- Languages (Python, TypeScript, Java, Go)
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this role is $171,200 - $246,000. In addition to your base salary, Metronome offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched equity, sales incentive pay (for eligible roles), comprehensive health benefits, and other benefits listed below.
The actual base salary will vary based on factors including market value, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process, and previous experience. The listed range above should serve as a guideline and may be modified at any time.
We believe that compensation reflects the expected impact you will have at the company, relative to the market value of your role. We also conduct an annual pay audit to ensure pay is fair, indexed to market value, and that pay takes into account continued performance at Metronome. If you would like to learn more about our philosophy or about why we are all billing nerds, send us a message. We’d love to talk!
About the Role
What You'll Do
- Build platforms that scale: Design and operate foundational infrastructure—Kubernetes clusters, Kafka streaming platforms, Spark batch processing, observability systems—that handle billions of events and enable Metronome to grow with minimal friction.
- Enable product velocity: Create golden paths, abstractions, and tooling that let engineers ship faster and more reliably without becoming infrastructure experts themselves.
- Enable reliability as the product: Take accountability for system uptime, performance, and correctness. Build monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems that enable the entire team catch problems before customers notice.
- Drive technical direction: Shape Metronome's infrastructure strategy, make platform-level architectural decisions, and mentor engineers across the organization.
Impact You'll Have
- Multiply engineering effectiveness: Every tool you build, every deployment pipeline you improve, every observability gap you close makes dozens of engineers more productive. Your infrastructure decisions directly impact what and how fast the company can ship.
- Power mission-critical workloads: Our infrastructure processes financial data for companies like Confluent, OpenAI and Anthropic—where accuracy, performance, and reliability aren't nice-to-haves, they're requirements. You'll build systems where correctness matters and downtime has real consequences.
- Shape how we scale: You'll have a real voice in how we architect systems to handle 10x growth, which technologies we bet on, and how we build a world-class infrastructure organization.
Qualifications
- 5+ years building infrastructure systems: Hands-on experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, data pipelines, observability, CI/CD, or other foundational platforms.
- Ownership of production systems: Track record of operating mission-critical infrastructure with strong focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Force multiplier mindset: You build platforms that enable others. You create abstractions that make complex systems approachable. You think about developer experience as a first-class concern.
- Cross-functional collaboration: You partner effectively with product teams, communicate technical decisions clearly, and mentor engineers across experience levels.
Tech stack
The main expectation for the role is you’re excited to learn and work with whatever technologies make the most sense for the problem at hand. That said, our current tech stack includes:
- Cloud Infrastructure (AWS: EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, and more)
- Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Streaming & Batch Processing (Kafka, Kafka Streams, Spark)
- Languages (Python, TypeScript, Java, Go)
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this role is $171,200 - $246,000. In addition to your base salary, Metronome offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched equity, sales incentive pay (for eligible roles), comprehensive health benefits, and other benefits listed below.
The actual base salary will vary based on factors including market value, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process, and previous experience. The listed range above should serve as a guideline and may be modified at any time.
We believe that compensation reflects the expected impact you will have at the company, relative to the market value of your role. We also conduct an annual pay audit to ensure pay is fair, indexed to market value, and that pay takes into account continued performance at Metronome. If you would like to learn more about our philosophy or about why we are all billing nerds, send us a message. We’d love to talk!
