Technical Lead, Billing and Revenue Platform
Lead engineer building and evolving Glean's consumption-based billing and revenue platform. Own metering, pricing, credits, guardrails for AI costs, and admin dashboards while providing technical leadership across backend, data pipelines, and frontend. Requires 8+ years experience with revenue-critical or high-integrity systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and implement systems for usage metering, pricing logic, credits, and admin-facing billing dashboards.
- Provide technical leadership and vision across a broad billing surface area, spanning data pipelines, backend services, and web UX.
- Drive the evolution of our consumption / Flex pricing infrastructure in a fast-paced environment, with a high bar for correctness, reliability, and debuggability.
- Partner with Finance, Pricing, RevOps, and Product to translate pricing strategy into robust technical designs and workflows.
- Define and maintain guardrails for LLM and agent costs (e.g., limits, anomaly detection, margin monitoring) so product teams can ship AI features confidently.
- Raise the bar for engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers on the team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Experience building platforms and web interfaces, including frontend, APIs, and backend services.
- Meaningful experience with billing, payments, pricing, or other revenue-critical systems (usage-based or subscription); or you have built similarly high-integrity, auditable systems.
- Strong ability to drive technical direction, make tradeoffs explicit, and align cross-functional stakeholders around pragmatic decisions.
- An owner mindset and excitement about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer and business impact.
- Expertise in Golang, Java, Typescript, SQL is highly desirable.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with or desire to learn large language models, retrieval augmented generation, agents, and their cost structures is beneficial.
Skills
Go, Java, TypeScript, SQL, Frontend Development, API Development, Backend Development, Billing Systems, Usage Metering, Pricing Logic
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