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Metropolis Technologies is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to serve as the technical owner of the Metropolis Recognition Platform (MRP), a core system powering the Recognition Economy. You will be the go-to architect for the hardest technical problems, holding the entire platform architecture and navigating cross-functional boundaries across application engineering, computer vision, data, security, and platform teams.
Key responsibilities include leading end-to-end architecture across edge ingestion, identity resolution, decisioning, notification, and operator surfaces; driving cross-functional alignment and resolving ownership ambiguities across multiple engineering disciplines; evolving high-volume edge-to-cloud streaming pipelines engineered for tail latency, intermittent connectivity, backpressure, and out-of-order events; designing rules and decisioning layers for real-time actions including watchlist alerting, arrival routing, eligibility, consent gating, and frequency capping; balancing deterministic logic with probabilistic signals through explicit thresholds and quantitative cost reasoning; architecting privacy, identity, and consent models for biometric-regulated environments; owning production quality through SLOs, alerting, runbooks, and progressive rollout; and elevating technical standards through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship.
You will work with a modern stack including Scala, Java, TypeScript, React, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, AWS, GitHub, Datadog, and AI-native tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. The role requires 15+ years building and operating distributed, data-intensive production systems with deep experience as a multi-service platform technical owner. You should have expert proficiency in JVM languages, hands-on experience designing high-throughput ingestion pipelines, experience building rules and decisioning systems, strong systems judgment, excellent written technical communication, comfort with physical-world deployment constraints, and deep understanding of observability and progressive delivery.
Plus factors include experience with computer vision, biometric matching, sensor-fusion systems, privacy-regulated domains (BIPA, CCPA, GDPR), IoT and edge computing, identity resolution, hospitality/retail software, or prior principal-adjacent scope.
