# Senior Backend Engineer, Billing

**Company:** [Launchdarkly](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/launchdarkly)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $163k – $264k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Go, TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, Terraform, Rust, Python, API Design, Monolith Decomposition, Usage Metering, Reconciliation, Idempotency, SLOs, On-Call Operations, Multi-Tenant Systems
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Builds and operates backend services for plans, pricing, entitlements, usage metering, and billing integrations. The role requires 6+ years of software engineering experience, backend expertise, cloud infrastructure familiarity, and strong production ownership in correctness-critical systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build systems that define plans, pricing, entitlements, and limits, exposing them through APIs.
- Decompose billing functionality from a monolith into correct, testable, independently deployable services.
- Own end-to-end correctness across usage metering, reconciliation, invoices, and customer-visible usage data.
- Operate production systems, including SLOs, alerting, on-call, and root-cause remediation.

## Requirements
- **6+ years** of professional software engineering experience, including significant work on complex backend applications.
- Experience decomposing a monolith.
- A track record with systems where correctness is non-negotiable, including idempotency, reconciliation, reversible migrations, and safe cutovers.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Go, Rust, or Python.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or equivalent.
- Strong production ownership, including on-call responsibilities.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with billing, payments, metering systems, or usage-based pricing.
- Experience modeling entitlements, quotas, or multi-tenant limits.

## Compensation and Benefits
- **Zone 1:** $191,800–$263,670 for San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, and Seattle.
- **Zone 2:** $172,600–$237,270 for Irvine, Los Angeles, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
- **Zone 3:** $163,000–$224,070 for all other US locations.
- Compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
- Benefits include restricted stock units, health, vision, dental insurance, and mental health benefits.

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