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Software Engineer, Platform, Tinker

350k – 475kSan Francisco, CANew York, NYOnsiteEntry level
Summary

Builds platform systems for AI fine-tuning API including billing, metering, authorization (RBAC/OAuth), organizations/teams, data exports, and audit logging. Requires backend proficiency in Python/Rust and experience in billing, access control, or multi-tenant systems; bachelor's or equivalent.

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Design the authorization layer across all products: RBAC, API key scoping, organization hierarchies, and permission boundaries.
  • Own billing infrastructure end to end, including usage metering and aggregation, plan management, payment processing, invoicing, and revenue recognition support.
  • Build and evolve the organizations and teams model: seat management, SSO/SAML, workspace isolation, and invite flows.
  • Implement data export and deletion pipelines that meet enterprise compliance and data residency requirements.
  • Build audit logging so customers and internal teams have clear visibility into who did what, when.

Skills and Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language (we use Python or Rust).
  • Experience with at least one of: billing/payments infrastructure, identity and access control (RBAC/ABAC, OAuth, SAML), or multi-tenant platform systems.
  • Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving many, different cross-functional partners and subject matter experts.
  • A bias for action with a mindset to take initiative to work across different stacks and different teams where you spot the opportunity to make sure something ships.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 4+ years building backend systems in production.
  • Experience building billing or metering systems at scale (Metronome pipelines, usage-based pricing, invoicing pipelines).
  • Familiarity with enterprise-readiness patterns: SSO/SCIM provisioning, audit trails, data residency, custom contracts, role hierarchies.
  • Strong opinions on building correct financial systems — idempotency, exactly-once semantics, reconciliation.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures or stream processing for usage metering.
  • Background in security engineering or a strong security mindset (least-privilege design, secure defaults, threat modeling).
  • Prior work at an AI/ML company, developer tools company, or API-first platform.

Compensation

Depending on background, skills and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $350,000 - $475,000 USD.

Skills
PythonRustRBACOAuthSAMLSSOSCIMMetronomeevent-driven architecturesstream processing
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