Solutions Architect, Metronome (Startups)
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Solutions Architect, Metronome (Startups) at Stripe is a forward deployed payments infrastructure role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
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This Solutions / Sales Engineering role centers on technical discovery, demos, POCs, and helping buyers build internal consensus.
About Stripe
Stripe embeds engineers with large merchants to integrate payments, billing, and financial products. The role is anchored in SF, US-Remote, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Stand out for Solutions Architect, Metronome (Startups)
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Solutions Architect, Metronome (Startups) to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Stripe hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Bring a tight demo narrative: customer pain, live workflow, and measurable before/after — treat the interview like a compressed POC.
- Show how you qualify opportunities and say no to bad-fit pilots; Stripe values technical judgment in customer-facing roles.
- This role is tied to SF, US-Remote — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Stripe
- Demonstrate API design taste with a concrete example — Stripe will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate rigor with edge cases with a concrete example — Stripe will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Loops often include integration design and debugging — show you can reason about money movement, idempotency, and failure modes.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on stripe.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
Who we are
About Stripe / Metronome
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. With Metronome, now a Stripe product, companies can launch products faster, offer any pricing model, and streamline finance workflows without writing code. Our platform computes hundreds of millions of invoices per billing period and continues to scale rapidly to accommodate new customers. We save them days of development time and manual invoicing, enabling them to use their billing data to better serve their customers. Our customers love our product and approach, and we’re humbled to work with amazing companies like OpenAI, Hubspot, NVIDIA, Confluent, Anthropic, and many others. You'll be joining an experienced team that includes founders who have successfully built and sold startups, alongside Stripes with direct experience scaling teams through hypergrowth at companies like Dropbox, Palantir, and MongoDB. You'll be joining Stripe and be part of the holistic Stripe platform approaching monetization.
About the team
The Solutions Engineering team at Metronome is a technical group that sits at the intersection of everything Metronome does: sales, account management, product, R&D, and operations. Bottom line, we own the technical side of th