Software Engineer – Infrastructure
Metronome
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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About the role
- Build platforms that scale: Design and operate foundational infrastructure—Kubernetes clusters, Kafka streaming platforms, Spark batch processing, observability systems—that handle billions of events and enable Metronome to grow with minimal friction.
- Enable product velocity: Create golden paths, abstractions, and tooling that let engineers ship faster and more reliably without becoming infrastructure experts themselves.
- Enable reliability as the product: Take accountability for system uptime, performance, and correctness. Build monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems that enable the entire team catch problems before customers notice.
- Drive technical direction: Shape Metronome's infrastructure strategy, make platform-level architectural decisions, and mentor engineers across the organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years building infrastructure systems: Hands-on experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, data pipelines, observability, CI/CD, or other foundational platforms.
- Ownership of production systems: Track record of operating mission-critical infrastructure with strong focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Force multiplier mindset: You build platforms that enable others. You create abstractions that make complex systems approachable. You think about developer experience as a first-class concern.
- Cross-functional collaboration: You partner effectively with product teams, communicate technical decisions clearly, and mentor engineers across experience levels.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesKafkaSparkobservability systemsdistributed systemscloud infrastructurecontainer orchestrationdata pipelinesCI/CDmonitoring systems
Soft Skills
accountabilitymentoringcross-functional collaborationcommunicationdeveloper experienceproblem-solvingtechnical directionownershipscalability mindsetforce multiplier mindset