# Staff Product Engineer, Backend

**Company:** [Dash0](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/dash0)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, Stripe Api, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Systems, Backend Architecture, Billing Systems, Usage-Based Pricing, Data Metering, Monitoring, Observability, Ai Coding Tools
**Posted:** 2026-05-19

> Leads the architecture and development of scalable backend systems for usage-based billing, metering, marketplace integrations, and cost visibility. The role requires deep Go expertise, distributed-systems experience, strong observability practices, and a track record of technical mentorship.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural vision for the backend of a usage-based billing and revenue engineering platform.
- Build reliable metering systems that count usage events, synchronize data with payment providers, and ensure invoice accuracy.
- Own platform reliability and proactively identify risks before they become incidents.
- Foster a security-first culture and improve monitoring and observability practices.
- Define standards for code quality, testing, and observability.
- Mentor engineers, review product requirements for technical feasibility, and simplify complex technical designs.
- Improve cost visibility through usage dashboards and forecasting.
- Strengthen notification pipelines so timely alerts reach the right stakeholders.
- Establish architectural patterns in Go for billing systems.
- Deepen integrations with marketplaces, CRM tools, Stripe, cloud marketplaces, and internal reporting systems.
- Guide the backend team through scaling challenges across billing, metering, and marketplace integrations.

## Requirements
- Experience with billing systems or usage-based pricing models.
- Deep architectural expertise building and scaling distributed backend systems using **Go**.
- Strong understanding of architectural trade-offs and ability to communicate them clearly.
- Expert use of AI and agentic coding tools, with the technical judgment to verify and own the resulting code.
- Thorough testing practices and strong attention to data accuracy where financial transactions are involved.
- Product mindset for internal tools.
- Track record of mentoring engineers, improving team processes, fostering psychological safety, and raising work quality.
- Expertise in observability, **OpenTelemetry**, and monitoring.

## Nice to Have
- **Stripe API** experience.
- **Java** knowledge.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity participation.
- Fully remote and flexible work environment from anywhere in Europe.
- Location-specific benefits.
- €60/month phone and internet allowance.
- Offices in New York, Amsterdam, and Munich.
- Collaborative, fast-moving team culture.
- Career growth and development opportunities.
- Direct access to founders and leadership.

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