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