Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. The Data Platform team is responsible for aggregating Metronome’s data and providing offline data computation in near real-time and batch, enabling critical products and customer-facing features.

Responsibilities:

• Build batch and streaming pipelines capable of processing hundreds of thousands of events per second and generating millions of downstream records within a single job.

• Build out capabilities and golden paths for other engineers to build features on top of our large data warehouse in a self-service manner.

• Define and build the tools, systems and interfaces required for internal non-technical users to make business decisions on top of Metronome’s data (finance, product, go to market).

• Influence the overall architecture of Metronome. Drive the technical direction around usage of batch, streaming and real time compute primitives. Shape how key technologies like Spark, Clickhouse, Dagster fit into our company-level strategy.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 5+ years of experience designing and building scalable infrastructure systems —whether distributed services, internal platforms, or foundational tooling.

• Hands-on experience scaling distributed systems, with a deep understanding of performance, reliability, and fault tolerance—either as a senior individual contributor or technical lead.

• Ownership of mission-critical production systems, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, observability, and incident response.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with a track record of driving solutions across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.

• Proven success delivering high-impact projects in fast-paced, high-growth environments—navigating ambiguity, managing scope, and consistently landing quality outcomes.

• Experience mentoring engineers across experience levels, fostering growth through code reviews, design discussions, and technical leadership.

• Clear and thoughtful technical communication, whether writing design docs, participating in architecture reviews, or sharing context with non-engineering stakeholders.

Preferred:

• AWS (S3, RDS, EKS, Athena, Lambda, Step Functions, and more!)

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Serverless Framework)

• Languages (Python, Typescript, Java - for working with Kafka)

• CI/CD (AWS CodePipeline & CodeDeploy, CircleCI)

Company:

Metronome is a usage-based billing platform that helps companies to implement new business models and launch products faster. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. Metronome has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.