Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Metropolis
$170-225k
Autonomous commerce platform for urban mobility
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Autonomous commerce platform for urban mobility
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-225k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To disrupt traditional city infrastructure to empower the future of urban mobility.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate combines deep technical mastery of modern cloud-native systems with a strong collaborative mindset to interface across engineering teams, troubleshoot complex environments, and provide technical guidance to scale the team's overall competency
- Hold a BS degree in Computer Science (or a relevant technical/engineering discipline) and 5+ years of hands-on experience, or equivalent professional experience (8+ years) working in high-growth cloud environments
- Demonstrate deep production-level technical experience using AWS, Terraform, Atmos, and Python (or equivalent automation language - Bash/Go)
- Demonstrate hands-on expertise with a modern observability stack (Datadog or equivalent: APM/distributed tracing, logs, metrics, RUM), including defining SLOs/SLIs and managing monitors-as-code
- Leverage production experience with service mesh and L7 proxies (Envoy/Istio) and Kubernetes ingress in high-throughput request paths
- Utilize advanced operational knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, and overall container orchestration
- Apply strong secrets-management and rotation practices (Infisical, Vault, or AWS Secrets Manager) in a PCI/SOC2 context
- Showcase hands-on experience working with managed streaming data infrastructure via AWS MSK (Kafka) alongside various SQL and NoSQL AWS managed database solutions, including Amazon Aurora
- Maintain a strong understanding of cloud networking architecture, security protocols, and firewalls
- Exhibit expert competency managing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux (and Windows where applicable) server environments
- Use excellent written and verbal communication skills to translate complex infrastructure concepts into clear, actionable technical documentation
Desirable
- Possess previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth tech start-ups or fast-paced corporate engineering environments
What the job involves
- Metropolis is seeking a Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to serve as a principal contributor to our central cloud platform infrastructure. In this role, you will architect, scale, and maintain highly resilient environments across multiple products while driving infrastructure modernization and legacy system integrations
- Architect, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure environments across multiple company products
- Design and manage infrastructure modernization initiatives (CI/CD, IaC, K8s, AI, etc) and lead the complex integration of legacy or established systems into modern, cloud-native environments
- Craft comprehensive disaster recovery strategies and engineer production-grade technical solutions to safeguard system uptime
- Serve as a technical focal point for troubleshooting, system deep-dives, and resolving infrastructure bottlenecks across both Linux and Windows operating systems
- Ensure global cloud environments continuously meet and exceed stringent security guidelines and technical compliance frameworks, specifically PCI and SOC2
- Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and champion blameless postmortems and error-budget discipline across the team
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, helping to scale the infrastructure team's overall technical competency
Our take
Driven by computer vision and AI technology, Metropolis offers a seamless parking and checkout experience by turning cars into wallets. This eliminates the need for physical tickets and pay machines, allowing property owners to maximise the financial performance of their parking assets and offer a modern service to customers.
Metropolis aims to revolutionise parking by integrating future mobility solutions, such as autonomous vehicle deployment, charging stations, and eVTOL infrastructure. Its approach includes dynamic pricing to optimise revenue during demand surges.
Co-founded by Alex Israel, a former ParkMe founder, the company has expanded rapidly following several staggering fundraising rounds and partnerships with Premier Parking and Uber. The company's acquisition of SP Plus Corporation, funded by a $1.8 billion investment, positions it as a leader in AI-driven mobility solutions. As a pioneer in its category, Metropolis continues to push the boundaries of parking and mobility technology.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2025
$500m
SERIES D
Oct 2023
$1.1bn
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.8bn
Company benefits
- Equity options - We offer ownership opportunities through stock options
- Wellness benefits - A wellness program designed to support a variety of needs
- Health insurance - We subsidise high-quality health insurance coverage for full-time and hourly employees
- We subsidize high-quality health insurance coverage for full-time and hourly employees
- 401(k) match - Plan for your future with a 4% company match
- Parental leave - Receive support prior to, during leave, and as you transition back to work
- Time off - Unlimited PTO for salaried employees, and a generous PTO package for our hourly employees
- Paid holidays - We observe major holidays with company-wide closures, and double hourly rates for those who work
- Hybrid environment - Magic happens face to face, but we support a flexible working model
Company HQ
Downtown, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Alexander Israel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Vice President & General Manager at INRIX. Co-founder and former COO at ParkMe. BA in Business & Economics at University of Puget Sound.
Travis Kell
(Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer)Former Senior Vice President at Winton Group. Previously Director of Hedge Fund Solutions at BlackRock. BA in Business at University of Puget Sound.
Courtney Fukuda
(Co-Founder & Chief Integration Officer)Formerly hedge fund solutions group at BlackRock. Managed senior relationships with sovereign wealth fund, central banks and other major institutional investors. BA in Economics at Yale University.
Peter Fisher
(Co-Founder & CCO)Formerly growth equity Investor at Transamerica Investment Management, BA in Political Science at Boston College.
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