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Senior Software Engineer, Billing Platform

175k – 220kSan Francisco, CABackend EngineeringOnsite5+ YOE
Summary

Senior backend engineer to design, build, and scale Crusoe Cloud's billing platform, owning metering, pricing, invoicing, and payments end-to-end. Requires 5+ years experience with Go/Java/Rust/C++ and distributed systems.

About the role

What You'll Be Working On

  • Own Critical Systems: Design and operate highly reliable billing services that directly impact revenue and customer trust.
  • Drive Accuracy & Transparency: Build systems that ensure customers can clearly understand their usage and charges.
  • Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Finance, Product, Customer Success, and Support teams to align on requirements and deliver robust solutions.
  • Enable New Business Models: Implement flexible pricing and billing capabilities to support evolving cloud offerings.
  • Improve Reliability: Build safeguards, validation systems, and reconciliation workflows to prevent and detect billing discrepancies.
  • Mentor and Influence: Lead design discussions, review code, and raise the technical bar across the team.
  • Design and build scalable billing systems, including usage metering, pricing models, invoicing, and payment integrations.
  • Ensure accuracy, reliability, and auditability of all billing-related data and workflows.
  • Develop real-time and batch processing pipelines for usage tracking and cost calculation.
  • Build APIs and services that provide customers with clear, transparent insights into their usage and spend.
  • Partner with Finance and Product teams to support new pricing models, product launches, and revenue workflows.
  • Improve system observability, reconciliation processes, and error handling to ensure billing correctness.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions that support long-term scalability and flexibility of the billing platform.
  • Mentor engineers, enhance hiring practices, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture.

What You'll Bring to the Team

  • Billing Systems Experience: Experience building or working on billing, payments, metering, or financial systems (or similarly complex, high-integrity data systems).
  • Strong Ownership Mindset: Ability to own complex systems end-to-end, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Professional Experience: 5+ years of software development experience, including backend development with languages such as Go, Java, Rust, or C++.
  • Distributed Systems Expertise: Experience designing and operating scalable, fault-tolerant systems with strong data consistency guarantees.
  • Data & Processing Knowledge: Familiarity with real-time and batch data processing, event-driven architectures, and data modeling for financial systems.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to work closely with Product, Finance, and non-technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Attention to Detail: Strong focus on data accuracy, edge cases, and building systems that handle financial correctness.
  • Observability & Reliability: Experience building systems with strong monitoring, alerting, and debugging capabilities.
  • Mentorship: Experience guiding engineers and contributing to a culture of engineering excellence.
  • Communication Skills: Ability to clearly explain complex systems and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
  • Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
  • Employer contributions to HSA account
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • Professional development & tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health & wellness support
  • Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
  • Cell phone stipend
  • 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
  • Volunteer time off
  • Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
  • Daily meals allowance
  • Additional perks & programs specific to location
Skills
GoJavaRustC++Distributed SystemsReal-time Data ProcessingBatch ProcessingEvent-driven ArchitectureData ModelingObservabilityAPI DevelopmentBilling SystemsPaymentsMetering
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