Head of Security [Remote]

About Us

Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. With Metronome, companies can launch products faster, offer any pricing model, and streamline finance workflows without writing code.

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, NVIDIA, Confluent, and Anthropic.

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 $128M from leading investors including NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, and Workday Ventures. 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 a hands-on security generalist to build Metronome's security program as we scale. Security is critical to Metronome, and we've architected our products with security in mind from the get-go—zero trust architecture, principle of least privilege, first-class in-product RBAC and access controls, and strong SOC 1 & SOC 2 compliance. As we grow, we need a dedicated security leader who can build our security team and program, own the program management side of security, and tackle the customer assurance work that needs focused ownership.

In this role, you'll be the face of security at Metronome, owning our entire security function with a focus on customer trust building, risk reduction, and engineering enablement. You'll get your hands dirty with everything from SOC audits to security questionnaires to vulnerability management, building the security organization from the ground up. Initially, you'll be a hands-on contributor getting the program off the ground. As we grow, you'll hire and lead the function.

The ideal candidate is an opinionated software engineer who focuses on security, understands how secure software gets built, and can build strong relationships with our engineering organization and customers.

What You'll Do

Security Program Management

• Take ownership of Metronome's entire security posture, handling everything from vulnerability management to policy updates
• Coordinate penetration testing, security assessments, and incident response as the primary security point person
• Manage security tooling, monitoring, and the day-to-day "grungy" security work that keeps us secure
• Balance multiple security initiatives and priorities across the organization

Customer Trust Building

• Own all customer-facing security work: questionnaires, compliance calls, security reviews, and technical due diligence
• Manage SOC 1 & SOC 2 audits end-to-end and expand compliance framework as customer requirements grow
• Serve as the definitive security voice for sales calls, customer meetings, and enterprise security discussions
• Transform our customer assurance process from shared ownership to dedicated, streamlined execution

Engineering Enablement

• Partner with our 50+ engineer engineering team to maintain security excellence while minimizing development friction, creating a “pit of success”, where building secure software is the natural, easy path
• Review security architecture decisions and provide security guidance that accelerates rather than blocks development
• Build security processes that scale with our engineering culture and rapid growth pace

Future Organization Building

• Set the security vision and roadmap for Metronome's security program
• Initially execute against that roadmap as an individual contributor, but define and hire against the roadmap to build your team
• Scale the Metronome security team to be a world-class security organization

Impact You'll Have

• Lead security at a company that gets it right: Take ownership of a sophisticated security program built on strong foundations and scale it for the next phase of growth
• Build a world-class security organization: Create the security function from scratch, defining culture, processes, and team structure that will become the blueprint for other companies
• Drive customer trust at scale: Own the security reputation that enables Metronome to win complex enterprise deals and maintain customer confidence
• Shape security innovation: Influence how security engineering is done at a fast-growing company, with the autonomy to implement cutting-edge approaches

Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of experience in security engineering, with a strong software engineering background before.
• Hands-on experience with SOC 2 audits, compliance frameworks, and customer security assurance
• Deep understanding of cloud security, modern security architectures and tooling
• Track record of building relationships with engineering teams and being seen as an enabler
• Excellent communication skills with experience presenting to customers and executives
• Self-starter who can work independently and manage multiple security initiatives

We don't filter based on current expertise, so at Metronome you will learn:

• AWS (S3, RDS, API Gateway, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, MKS, and more!)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Serverless Framework)
• Languages (Python, Typescript, Java - for working with Kafka)
• Frontend Tools and Frameworks (React, Apollo GraphQL, Webpack, React Testing Library)
• CI/CD (AWS CodePipeline & CodeDeploy, CircleCI)

Compensation

The estimated base salary range for this role is $196,800 - $246,000. 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:

• 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.