Description
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.
Cloudflare’s Billing Engineering team builds and operates the systems responsible for usage metering, aggregation, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, and revenue recognition. These systems power billions in revenue and support millions of customers across Cloudflare’s product portfolio.
As a Senior Billing Systems Engineer, you will design reliable financial infrastructure, lead projects from requirements through production, and help ensure billing remains accurate as Cloudflare grows.
Responsibilities
- Build Billing Systems: Design, develop, and operate transactional microservices supporting metering, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, and financial workflows.
- Own Projects End to End: Drive initiatives from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation.
- Ensure Accuracy and Reliability: Build fault-tolerant systems that safely handle retries, failures, concurrency, and high transaction volumes while preserving financial correctness.
- Maintain Operational Excellence: Monitor production services, investigate billing issues, improve observability, and address the underlying causes of recurring incidents.
- Shape Technical Direction: Participate in architecture reviews, make pragmatic technical trade-offs, and help improve engineering standards across the billing platform.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with Product, Finance, Accounting, Support, and other engineering teams to turn complex business requirements into maintainable solutions.
Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
- Five or more years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems or backend services in production.
- Proficiency in Go or another modern programming language, with an interest in working extensively with Go.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, service security, and API standards such as OpenAPI, OAuth, or JWT.
- Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- Experience designing secure, highly available microservices in Linux or Unix environments.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and project ownership skills.
Bonus Points
- Experience with billing, payments, subscriptions, usage metering, invoicing, financial ledgers, or revenue recognition.
- Experience with technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, or Temporal.
- Familiarity with reconciliation, idempotency, auditability, and financial data integrity.
- Experience leading technically complex projects across multiple teams.