Software Engineer, Product & Platform Teams

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Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and evolve high-performance systems that are scalable, resilient, and reliable—ensuring Metronome grows with low maintenance and high customer confidence.

Requirements Summary

5+ years of hands-on engineering experience building high scale/throughput systems or world-class product. Craftsmanship in code: You take pride in shipping high-quality and thoughtful features.

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Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. With Metronome, companies can launch products faster, offer any pricing model, and streamline finance workflows without writing code.

Our platform computes millions of invoices per billing period and is scaling rapidly to accommodate new customers, saving them hours of development time and manual invoicing and enabling them to use consumption data to better serve their customers. Our customers love our product and approach, and we’re humbled to work with amazing companies like OpenAI, NVIDIA, Confluent, and Anthropic.

You'll be joining an experienced team that includes founders who have successfully built and sold startups before. Our founders and employees also have direct experience building and scaling teams through massive growth at companies like Dropbox, Clever, and New Relic. On the back of this experience and our success-to-date, we’ve raised over $128M from leading investors including NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, and Workday Ventures. We’re also proud to have founders and executives of companies like Segment, Plaid, Looker, Gitlab, Confluent, HashiCorp, and Snowflake, as investors who have experienced the pain we're solving firsthand.

About the Role

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Join Metronome to scale the next generation billing platform. you’ll have the opportunity to explore how businesses bill their customers, unlock insights from usage data, and deliver delightful experiences through APIs and UI.

You’ll move fluidly between platform work and customer-facing features, optimizing for high-growth environment.

If you’re ownership-driven, curious, and low-ego, this is your arena.

Responsibilities

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→Build to last: Design, build, and evolve high-performance systems that are scalable, resilient, and reliable—ensuring Metronome grows with low maintenance and high customer confidence.
→Deliver impactful features: Work across the stack to create customer-delighting experiences, from robust APIs to intuitive UIs.
→Elevate the team: Collaborate across functions, mentor peers, and contribute to a culture where smart, low-ego teammates push each other to grow—like a world-class orchestra.
→Act like an owner: Take accountability from design to delivery, pitch in wherever needed, and help Metronome meet the moment as we scale.

Build the backbone of scale: This is the moment we’re re-architecting core systems to 10x Metronome’s capabilities. You’ll wrestle with hard technical constraints around speed, accuracy, and scale, making tradeoffs that set us up for long-term success while giving engineers an easier, more reliable platform to build on.
Push the boundaries of billing: Our customers include some of the most innovative companies in the world—especially in AI—whose needs are redefining what’s possible in pricing and monetization. By meeting their demands, you’ll help shape not just Metronome’s product, but the future of billing across the industry.
Shape how we work, not just what we build: It’s still Day 1 at Metronome. You’ll have a real voice in how we make tough technical decisions and in how we grow as a team—helping us become an even better version of ourselves while building a culture of smart, low-ego, team-first builders.

Requirements

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Proven track record of execution: 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience building high scale/throughput systems or world-class product.
Craftsmanship in code: You take pride in shipping high-quality and thoughtful features. Ability to debug and refactor complex code.
Customer empathy: You deeply understand customer needs and translate them into intuitive solutions.

Tech-savvy and curious: Whether you’re familiar with our stack or excited to learn, you thrive on picking up new tools. Our current tech stack is:

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Serverless Framework)
Languages (mainly Typescript, sometimes Python/Rust)
Frontend Tools and Frameworks (React, Apollo GraphQL, Webpack, React Testing Library)
CI/CD (AWS CodePipeline & CodeDeploy, CircleCI)

What We Offer

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The estimated base salary range for this role is $156,800 - $285,600. 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!