Metronome · 14 hours ago
Platform Engineering Manager
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$208K/yr - $260K/yr
6+ years expMetronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. They are seeking a senior engineering leader to manage a team and drive the evolution of their platform while ensuring high-quality delivery and fostering a high-performance culture.
BillingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Set organizational and technical direction: Shape the roadmap and vision for your team in collaboration with infrastructure, data, and product leadership
Advocate for the right long-term system investments: Lead cross-cutting initiatives that enable scale, improve margins, and raise the bar for reliability and testing standards
Drive complex cross-team execution: Bring clarity to sequencing, align priorities across stakeholders, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery—making deliberate tradeoffs to balance near-term customer value with long-term platform foundations
Manage and grow leaders: Lead senior engineers and emerging managers. Provide career development, performance feedback, and coaching to build the next generation of technical and organizational leaders
Recruit and retain top talent: Scale the team by hiring exceptional engineers and managers. Foster a high-trust, high-performance culture that values innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence
In your first six months, you will have: Driven clarity and momentum on our next-generation compute initiative, ensuring the team delivers measurable progress toward platform scalability and reliability
Built strong trust and alignment with cross-functional partners in product, data, and infrastructure, enabling faster decision-making and clearer tradeoffs
Delivered incremental value to customers while laying the foundation for long-term architectural improvements
Within 12–18 months, you will have: Established the platform as a clear differentiator for Metronome—improving cost efficiency, unlocking new product capabilities, and raising the bar for reliability
Successfully led the organization through complex technical tradeoffs and multi-quarter sequencing, ensuring both near-term delivery and long-term durability
Developed and promoted the next generation of leaders, ensuring the team scales sustainably with Metronome’s growth
Qualification
Required
6+ years of engineering management experience: Including managing managers or senior/staff ICs and scaling teams through periods of growth and complexity
8+ years of technical experience: You've built and operated distributed systems or platforms at scale and understand platform architecture and reliability deeply
Proven leadership skills: You've led teams through ambiguity, made long-term technical bets, and know how to align execution with business goals
Strong organizational and communication skills: You navigate complex stakeholder needs, drive clarity across teams and functions, and communicate tradeoffs to executives
Commitment to inclusivity: You build diverse, inclusive teams and lead with empathy, candor, and authenticity
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
Company
Metronome
Metronome is a usage-based billing platform that helps companies to implement new business models and launch products faster.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$128MKey Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesAndreessen HorowitzGeneral Catalyst
2025-12-02Acquired
2025-02-25Series C· $50M
2024-01-31Series B· $43M
Leadership Team
Scott Woody
CEO
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