Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. We help teams launch products faster, iterate on pricing quickly, and deliver a first-class billing experience—all with speed, control, and confidence.
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, and NVIDIA.
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 $78m from leading investors including NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Elad Gil. 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 Engineering Manager who has a solid track record of developing and nurturing high-performing product engineering teams. The ideal candidate will be capable of understanding the technical details, and work with the team to deliver incremental values. You know how to support engineers at all stages of their career and are motivated to help them do their best work.
What You'll Do
- Drive execution and delivery: You’ll oversee multiple projects. Partner with engineers, product managers, and cross-stakeholders to set priorities, define milestones, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
- Manage engineers: Provide coaching, feedback, and mentorship to a group of 7+ engineers, enabling their professional growth.
- Recruit and retain top talent: Play a key role in hiring skilled engineers and creating an environment to maximize their potential and impact
- Drive org-level initiative: We value diverse perspectives and unique strengths. Whether you’re passionate about our mentorship program, improving testing strategy, or a culture builder, you will drive initiatives that solve broad problems in the org.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of engineering management experience: You’ve led product-focused teams, including senior engineers.
- 5+ years of technical experience: You’ve been in a highly technical role and understand what makes a great software engineer.
- Strong organizational skills: You excel at managing multiple projects from concept to delivery and production support.
- Experience building and supporting teams: You’re skilled in hiring, coaching, and performance management.
- Commitment to inclusivity: You build diverse and inclusive teams through empathetic and direct communication.
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this role is $195,000 - $225,000. 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!
- 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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