Senior Staff Software Engineer – Edge-to-Cloud

Metropolis; Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 Days in Office (onsite)

Stock options

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Metropolis in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Recognition Platform to own and evolve a high-volume, edge-to-cloud system that converts sensor signals into real-time actions. You will shepherd architecture across multiple domains and drive RFCs while aligning internal teams and external partners.

You will foster privacy-aware design, establish robust testing and observability, and coach engineers to raise technical standards in a demanding production

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating distributed, data-intensive production systems.
• Experience as a multi-service platform technical owner with cross-functional influence.
• Proficient in JVM languages and modern service-oriented design.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture across edge ingestion, identity resolution, decisioning, and notifications.
• Drive cross-functional alignment among application, CV/ML, data, security, and platform teams.
• Evolve high-volume edge-to-cloud streaming pipelines with scalable backbones.
• Design rules and decisioning layers for real-time actions like watchlists and routing.
• Balance deterministic logic with probabilistic signals and model testing replay harnesses.
• Architect privacy, identity, and consent models for biometric contexts with legal input.
• Own production quality through SLOs, alerting, runbooks, and progressive rollout.
• Mentor peers and raise engineering standards with RFCs and code reviews.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cross-functional leadership

Java/Scala

gRPC/Protobuf

Event-driven architecture

Relational data modeling

Ingestion pipelines

RFCs writing

Observability

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Scala

Java

gRPC/Protobuf

AWS

Git/GitHub

Job description

Metropolis in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Recognition Platform to own and evolve a high-volume, edge-to-cloud system that converts sensor signals into real-time actions. You will shepherd architecture across multiple domains and drive RFCs while aligning internal teams and external partners.

You will foster privacy-aware design, establish robust testing and observability, and coach engineers to raise technical standards in a demanding production