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.
- Set organizational and technical direction: Shape the roadmap and vision for your teams in collaboration with product, engineering and design leadership. Ensure the product and platform scales effectively and is built to meet evolving customer needs.
- Drive execution and delivery: Oversee multiple mission-critical projects that power Metronome’s customer experience. Align priorities across teams and stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
- Manage and grow teams: Lead and mentor engineering managers and senior ICs. Provide career development, performance feedback, and coaching across teams.
- Recruit and retain top talent: Hire exceptional engineers and managers. Foster a high-trust, high-performance culture that values innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence.
- Lead org-wide initiatives: Champion company-wide efforts to improve operational excellence, define testing standards, and raise the bar for execution quality.
- Own a mission-critical organization: Build and lead a function that is essential to Metronome’s ability to support complex billing needs for the world’s most innovative companies.
- Establish a culture of excellence: Define technical standards, reliability practices, and operational processes that build customer trust and reduce on-call burden.
- Develop future leaders: Grow the next generation of engineering leaders at Metronome through mentorship, sponsorship, and skill development.
- 4+ years of engineering management experience: Including managing managers or tech leads, and scaling teams through periods of growth and complexity.
- 7+ years of technical experience: You’ve built and operated systems 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 and drive clarity across teams and functions.
- Commitment to inclusivity: You build diverse, inclusive teams and lead with empathy, candor, and authenticity.
The estimated base salary range for this role is $204,000 - $256,000. 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!
for Full-time employees:
- 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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