# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Recognition Platform

Hiring organization: [Metropolis Technologies](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/metropolis-technologies)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/6a8dd142-fe61-4a9c-832f-808ff0e4d4c4

Listed on Metropolis Technologies's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

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- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Salary: 232000 – 268000 USD per year

## Summary

This role owns the technical architecture of Metropolis's recognition platform, directing the evolution of high-volume edge-to-cloud pipelines that process sensor data into real-time decisions across parking, retail, and hospitality. You'll lead without direct reports, aligning distributed teams on shared architecture and raising technical standards while handling the unique constraints of physical-world deployment and biometric systems.

_Our summary, not Metropolis Technologies's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datadog, Git, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, gRPC, Java, MySQL, PostgreSQL, React, Scala, Snowflake, TypeScript

## Required

- 12+ years building and operating distributed, data-intensive production systems
- Deep experience as a multi-service platform technical owner
- Cross-functional technical leadership and alignment of independent engineering teams
- Expert proficiency in JVM languages (Java or Scala)
- Fluency in event-driven and service-oriented design using gRPC/protobuf, streaming, and relational data modeling
- Hands-on experience designing high-throughput ingestion pipelines with understanding of delivery semantics, idempotency, ordering, backpressure, and tail latency
- Experience building rules, eligibility, or decisioning systems with deterministic and probabilistic signals
- Strong systems judgment integrating third-party APIs, SDKs, and vendor constraints
- Excellent written technical communication and RFC writing
- Comfortable with physical-world deployment constraints and operational messiness
- Deep understanding of observability, automated testing, and progressive delivery

## Nice to have

- Experience with computer vision, biometric matching, or sensor-fusion systems
- Background in privacy- or biometric-regulated domains (BIPA, CCPA, GDPR) or consent-management systems
- Experience with IoT, edge computing, fleet-scale device telemetry, or MQTT-class transports
- Expertise in identity resolution or customer data platforms
- Experience with hospitality, retail, or physical-operations software
- Prior experience in principal-adjacent or tech-lead-of-tech-leads scope

Apply on Metropolis Technologies's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/metropolis/jobs/7931195003