Platform Engineering Manager

Metronome • San Francisco, CA

107d • $208,000 - $260,000

About The Position

Metronome is reimagining the core systems that will define the future of our platform. We’re looking for a senior engineering leader to tackle some of the most technically challenging and strategically important problems in our domain. You will be leading a team of highly tenured and exceptional engineers through a multi-quarter initiative that will transform our platform’s capabilities, accelerate innovation, and establish a durable technical advantage for Metronome. As the leader of this group, you’ll own both short-term delivery milestones and the long-term vision for how this platform evolves to meet customer and business needs.

Requirements

• 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.

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.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees