Senior Software Engineer - Billing and Internal Tooling
Owns end-to-end billing, pricing, and revenue infrastructure at Baseten, building scalable systems and internal tools. Requires 5+ years software experience, billing/internal tools background, and deep web/databases knowledge.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own Baseten’s end-to-end billing and revenue infrastructure, including pricing, invoicing, metering, and reporting foundations.
- Build and evolve our billing platform and integrations (including Orb), ensuring correctness, auditability, and a high-trust experience for customers and internal teams.
- Partner closely with Finance, Sales, GTM, and Forward Deployed Engineering to turn real-world workflows into reliable internal tooling and automation (quoting, approvals, renewals, usage reconciliation, revenue reporting).
- Design systems that scale with new products, packaging, and go-to-market motions, making billing a strategic lever for growth.
- Drive reliability and operational excellence for revenue-critical workflows: monitoring, alerting, incident response, backfills, and clear runbooks.
- Lead from the front on high-impact projects: clarify requirements, propose crisp technical approaches, ship iteratively, and raise the bar on quality and velocity.
- Debug and resolve production issues with urgency, communicating clearly with stakeholders and closing the loop with durable fixes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years experience building software applications
- Experience with billing systems or building internal tools
- Deep knowledge of the web stack & databases
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- Generous PTO policy including company wide Winter Break
- Paid parental leave
- Company-facilitated 401(k)
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups
Skills
Orb, Postgres, Web Stack, Billing Systems, Internal Tooling, Stripe, AWS, Python, JavaScript, React
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