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, Databricks, 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
We are looking for an experienced engineer to join us in building, scaling, and operationalizing the next generation of Metronome’s powerful billing platform.
What You'll Do
- Create, own, and evolve high performance, high throughput services that power Metronome’s powerful billing product
- Define SLOs and SLAs to hold ourselves accountable to a high standard of reliability across the entire product surface area
- Evolve and reimagine the tools used across Metronome engineering and Go-to-market
- Design new systems to withstand the test of continued growth
- Collaborate with your peers across Engineering on all of the above
- Much more! As a high-growth startup, we need folks to pitch in wherever they can
Impact You'll Have
- Metronome’s stack will become more scalable, more resilient, and easier to work with
- Engineers across Metronome will be able to evolve the product more quickly and safely
- Customers will confidently integrate Metronome into their core product experiences, while experiencing minimal disruptions
- The Metronome Product will do things people couldn’t even imagine a billing product doing
- 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
Qualifications
- 5+ years of work experience working on high scale/throughput systems
- Ability to debug and refactor complex and complicated code
- Ability to architect and fully spec new systems and changes to complex existing systems with an active, dynamic, ever-growing customer base
- Ability to communicate ideas, concepts, and processes in a clear way
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!
- 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.
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