Head of Infrastructure

Head Of Infrastructure

We are looking for an experienced infrastructure leader to own and scale the technical foundation that powers Metronome's platform. As Head of Infrastructure, you'll lead a growing team of ~15 engineers responsible for the real-time systems that process billions of events, millions of invoices and enable some of the world's most innovative companies to build their operations on Metronome.

This role combines deep technical expertise with organizational leadership, owning the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our infrastructure layer. You'll be responsible for ensuring our platform can handle exponential customer growth while maintaining the enterprise-grade reliability that our customers depend on for their critical business operations.

What You'll Do

Infrastructure Leadership and Strategy

• Lead and grow a team of 15+ infrastructure engineers, managing both engineering managers and senior individual contributors while providing mentorship, career development, and technical guidance across multiple teams
• Build and scale the infrastructure organization structure, defining team responsibilities, establishing clear ownership boundaries, and ensuring effective coordination between infrastructure teams and product engineering groups
• Own the technical roadmap for Metronome's infrastructure layer as we scale to support larger scale and evolve from commodity solutions to specialized streaming infrastructure
• Partner with engineering leadership to balance infrastructure investments with product development needs, serving as an enabler for product engineering teams

Platform Reliability and Operations

Scaling and Team Development

Impact You'll Have

Qualifications

Compensation

The estimated base salary range for this role is $220,000 - 275,000. 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!

Benefits

For full-time employees :

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.