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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