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Staff Software Engineer, Monetization Platform

San Francisco, CABackend EngineeringHybrid10+ YOE
Summary

As a Staff Software Engineer, Monetization Platform, you will be a technical leader focused on architecting and evolving Drata’s core billing domain. You will design event-driven systems, shape commercial flexibility, and build operationally trustworthy software for accurate customer outcomes and clean financial operations.

About the role

What you’ll do:

  • Partner with Product, Finance, Accounting, RevOps, and Engineering leadership to shape Drata’s long-term billing architecture and commercial flexibility across self-serve and enterprise motions.
  • Design the primitives of a modern billing platform: usage events, billable metrics, products, rate cards, contracts, credits, subscriptions, overages, and invoice workflows.
  • Architect a system that can accurately meter product usage at scale, transform raw events into billable quantities, and support pricing changes without requiring constant product rework.
  • Build and evolve the entitlement layer that separates pricing and packaging from product behavior, so feature access, limits, credits, and plan controls are programmable rather than hardcoded.
  • Work closely with SFDC admins, CPQ owners, and Finance systems stakeholders to ensure quote-to-cash flows are coherent across CRM, product, billing, ERP, and downstream reporting systems.
  • Ensure billing systems are operationally trustworthy: idempotent event handling, strong reconciliation paths, reliable notifications, auditability, and clear observability for engineers and business teams.
  • Review architecture and code for billing-related projects to ensure correctness, scale, security, and maintainability while empowering teams to own implementation details.
  • Troubleshoot the hard problems: invoice discrepancies, usage drift, contract edge cases, entitlement bugs, migration failures, and cross-system data mismatches.
  • Lead cross-team initiatives such as introducing a usage-based billing foundation, rationalizing packaging models, improving billing developer experience, or migrating from brittle homegrown logic to more composable billing and entitlement systems.
  • Mentor engineers across teams on domain modeling, distributed systems tradeoffs, financial correctness, and the realities of building software where product behavior and revenue recognition are tightly coupled.

What you’ll bring:

  • 10+ years of experience as a software engineer, including meaningful time owning business-critical backend systems in production.
  • Deep experience architecting billing, payments, pricing, or quote-to-cash systems for a B2B SaaS company at meaningful scale.
  • Strong experience designing APIs and event-driven systems that ingest, validate, aggregate, and reconcile high-volume operational data.
  • Strong understanding of modern billing models, including usage-based pricing, subscriptions, prepaid credits, commitments, overages, hybrid packaging, and enterprise-specific commercial terms.
  • Experience working directly with Accounting, Finance, RevOps, and GTM systems where data quality, auditability, and timing matter.
  • Strong experience integrating with systems like Salesforce, CPQ, NetSuite, payment platforms, and downstream finance/reporting tooling.
  • Strong proficiency with:
    • JavaScript/TypeScript and object-oriented programming
    • Building and consuming RESTful web services
    • Relational databases, data modeling, and transactional workflows
    • Distributed systems and asynchronous processing
    • Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
    • Logging, telemetry, and production debugging
    • Git and modern CI/CD practices
    • At least one major cloud platform and modern infrastructure tooling
  • A strong product and systems mindset: you can model the commercial domain cleanly, but you also know billing architecture is ultimately customer experience architecture.

Bonus Qualifications

  • Usage-based billing platforms such as Metronome, especially concepts like usage events, billable metrics, products, rate cards, contracts, credits, and programmable invoice workflows.
  • Entitlement and monetization platforms such as Stigg, especially entitlements as a system of record for feature access, limits, credits, and packaging logic.
  • Building systems that support both PLG/self-serve and enterprise sales motions on the same technical foundation.
  • Audit logs, RBAC, webhooks, durable queues, and other patterns that make billing and monetization systems reliable and debuggable in production.
  • AI-assisted development tools

You’ve had success in roles where you:

  • Architected or modernized a billing system that had to support real usage metering, invoice correctness, and flexible commercial models rather than a single static subscription plan.
  • Built systems where raw product activity was transformed into durable billing inputs and surfaced in customer-facing or internal financial workflows.
  • Worked through pricing and packaging changes without repeatedly hardcoding logic into application code.
  • Supported models like prepaid credits, subscriptions with overage, enterprise commitments, or hybrid contracts for different customer segments.
  • Partnered directly with Finance, Accounting, and RevOps to close gaps between what the product did, what the...
Skills
JavaScriptTypeScriptRESTful Web ServicesRelational DatabasesData ModelingDistributed SystemsGitCI/CDSalesforceNetSuite