Senior Staff Engineer, Recognition Platform (Edge-to-Cloud)

Metropolis Technologies; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 231,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option plan

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Disability coverage

Performance bonuses

Job summary

Metropolis Technologies is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to own the Metropolis Recognition Platform. You will lead the evolution of real-time, edge-to-cloud pipelines and decisioning systems, guiding architecture and RFCs while collaborating across engineering, data, security, and product teams.

In this role you will drive high-volume ingestion, design rules for real-time actions, and ensure robust privacy and observability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience building and operating distributed, data-intensive production systems.
• Proven cross-functional technical leadership and alignment of independent teams on architecture.
• Expert proficiency in JVM languages (Java/Scala) and event-driven design.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture across edge ingestion, identity resolution, decisioning, notification, and operator surfaces.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across application, CV/ML, data, security, and platform teams and external partner integrations.
• Evolve high-volume edge-to-cloud streaming pipelines with tail latency considerations and backpressure handling.
• Design rules and decisioning layers for real-time actions including watchlist alerting, routing, and eligibility checks.
• Balance deterministic logic with probabilistic signals and establish thresholds and testing harnesses.
• Architect privacy, identity, and consent models in regulated environments with cross-functional collaboration.
• Own production quality by defining SLOs, alerts, runbooks, and progressive rollout via feature flags.
• Elevate technical standards through reviews and AI-native engineering workflows.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cross-functional leadership

Java/Scala

Event-driven design

High-throughput pipelines

Decisioning systems

Observability

RFCs & architecture

Partner integrations

Technical communication

Tools

AWS

Datadog

GitHub

gRPC/protobuf

PostgreSQL

Job description

Metropolis Technologies is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to own the Metropolis Recognition Platform. You will lead the evolution of real-time, edge-to-cloud pipelines and decisioning systems, guiding architecture and RFCs while collaborating across engineering, data, security, and product teams.

In this role you will drive high-volume ingestion, design rules for real-time actions, and ensure robust privacy and observability.