Software Engineer, Monetization Platform
Build and evolve Drata's billing and monetization platform, handling usage metering, entitlements, invoicing, and integrations with Salesforce, CPQ, and ERP systems. Requires 3+ years building backend systems and experience with modern B2B SaaS billing models.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Finance, Accounting, RevOps, and Engineering leadership to shape Drata’s long-term billing architecture and commercial flexibility across self-serve and enterprise motions.
- Help design the primitives of a modern billing platform: usage events, billable metrics, products, rate cards, contracts, credits, subscriptions, overages, and invoice workflows.
- Build on a system that can accurately meter product usage at scale, transform raw events into billable quantities, and support pricing changes without requiring constant product rework.
- Build and evolve the entitlement layer that separates pricing and packaging from product behavior, so feature access, limits, credits, and plan controls are programmable rather than hardcoded.
- Work closely with SFDC admins, CPQ owners, and Finance systems stakeholders to ensure quote-to-cash flows are coherent across CRM, product, billing, ERP, and downstream reporting systems.
- Ensure billing systems are operationally trustworthy: idempotent event handling, strong reconciliation paths, reliable notifications, auditability, and clear observability for engineers and business teams.
- Troubleshoot the hard problems: invoice discrepancies, usage drift, contract edge cases, entitlement bugs, migration failures, and cross-system data mismatches.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, including meaningful time owning business-critical backend systems in production.
- Experience architecting billing, payments, pricing, or quote-to-cash systems for a B2B SaaS company at meaningful scale.
- Experience designing APIs and event-driven systems that ingest, validate, aggregate, and reconcile high-volume operational data.
- Understanding of modern billing models, including usage-based pricing, subscriptions, prepaid credits, commitments, overages, hybrid packaging, and enterprise-specific commercial terms.
- Experience working directly with Accounting, Finance, RevOps, and GTM systems where data quality, auditability, and timing matter.
- Experience integrating with systems like Salesforce, CPQ, NetSuite, payment platforms, and downstream finance/reporting tooling.
- Strong proficiency with:
- JavaScript/TypeScript and object-oriented programming
- Building and consuming RESTful web services
- Relational databases, data modeling, and transactional workflows
- Distributed systems and asynchronous processing
- Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- Logging, telemetry, and production debugging
- Git and modern CI/CD practices
- At least one major cloud platform and modern infrastructure tooling
- A strong product and systems mindset: you can model the commercial domain cleanly, but you also know billing architecture is ultimately customer experience architecture.
Nice-to-Haves
- Usage-based billing platforms such as Metronome, especially concepts like usage events, billable metrics, products, rate cards, contracts, credits, and programmable invoice workflows.
- Entitlement and monetization platforms such as Stigg, especially entitlements as a system of record for feature access, limits, credits, and packaging logic.
- Building systems that support both PLG/self-serve and enterprise sales motions on the same technical foundation.
- Audit logs, RBAC, webhooks, durable queues, and other patterns that make billing and monetization systems reliable and debuggable in production.
- AI-assisted development tools
Skills
JavaScript, TypeScript, REST APIs, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Salesforce, NetSuite, Billing Systems, Quote-To-Cash
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