Software Engineer, Product Platform
Metronome
About Us
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.
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, Databricks, and NVIDIA.
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 $78m from leading investors including NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Elad Gil. 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
We are looking for an experienced engineer who is excited about building performant systems and tooling that makes doing so easy.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of work experience working on high scale/throughput systems
- Familiarity with observability and benchmarking tools
- Experience using a profiler and related tooling, bonus if it’s with Typescript/JavaScript
- Experience debugging and optimizing database query performance
- Experience finding bottlenecks in distributed, heterogeneous systems
- Ability to communicate ideas, concepts, and processes in a clear way
What you might work on
- Build tools for benchmarking and load-testing of Metronome’s core components
- Identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and incidents across the stack
- Identify and document the critical scale parameters of complex systems
- Design new systems to withstand the test of continued growth
- Write engineering specs for your proposals and review those written by others
- Collaborate with your peers across Engineering on all of the above
- Much more! As a small startup, we need folks to pitch in wherever they can
Impact you'll have
- The tools you’ll build will enable Metronome to build and maintain performant systems
- Your colleagues will level up their ability to detect and reason about performance issues
- Customers integrating Metronome into their “hot path”
- Metronome will be able to run a leaner infrastructure and maintain higher margins
- The Metronome team is more well-rounded because you bring your unique personality to work and help create an inclusive fun environment focused on helping our customers get the most value out of Metronome
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this role is $165,000 - $192,500. 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!
Benefits
- Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage, including a One Medical membership
- Paid parental leave
- FSA (Flexible spending account)
- Retirement planning - Traditional and ROTH 401(k)
- Flexible time off
- Employee assistance program (mental health benefits)
- Culture where personal growth is highly valued
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.