# Billing Engineer

**Company:** [Tailscale](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tailscale)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** CA$192k – CA$240k/yr
**Skills:** Go, SQL, Stripe, Metronome, Orb, Zuora, APIs, Distributed Systems, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Data Modeling, Saas Billing, Usage-Based Pricing, Observability, Event-Driven Systems
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> Builds and operates backend billing systems, including pricing, metering, payment-platform integrations, reconciliation, and revenue reporting. The role requires strong backend, distributed-systems, SQL, API, and SaaS billing expertise, with proficiency in Go preferred.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Deliver projects related to pricing plans and billing.
- Develop billing integrations with third-party services such as Stripe and Metronome.
- Design, build, test, and document core billing software components.
- Develop metering, pricing, and rating logic for usage-based and subscription billing models.
- Ensure accurate tracking and reporting of customer usage data.
- Monitor and maintain billing systems for high availability and data integrity.
- Build automation tools for recurring billing tasks, reconciliation, and reporting.
- Collaborate with product, sales, finance, support, and engineering teams on custom billing requirements, revenue reporting, and customer inquiries.
- Champion code quality, architectural reviews, and design documentation.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers.
- Establish observability, alerting, and error handling across the billing pipeline.
- Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for billing-related issues.

## Requirements
- Experience in backend software engineering, with a strong focus on billing, payments, or financial systems.
- Deep knowledge of SaaS billing models, including subscriptions, usage-based pricing, proration, discounts, and entitlements.
- Experience integrating with third-party billing platforms such as Stripe, Metronome, Orb, or Zuora, or building custom billing systems.
- Experience designing and managing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Proficiency with SQL and data modeling, especially for financial and usage data.
- Strong understanding of APIs and experience building or integrating internal billing APIs.
- Strong proficiency in Go, or willingness to write production-quality code in Go.
- Flexibility in a dynamic startup environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary range: **$191,620–$239,860 CAD**.
- Equity incentive plan and variable commission for quota-based roles.
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and other group benefits with no waiting period.
- Employer-funded retirement contributions, matching contributions dollar-for-dollar up to a maximum annual employer contribution of 0.75% of eligible compensation.
- $1,500 USD annually for professional development.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Company-owned laptop, monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD for workstation customization.
- Paid parental leave top-ups of 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Remote-first work environment with coworking support and opportunities for in-person company events.

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