Staff Product Engineer - Backend (Revenue Engineering, Stripe)

Accountabilities

The role focuses on building and maintaining the core systems that support revenue operations, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and scalability as the platform grows.

• Own and evolve metering infrastructure by designing, developing, and improving systems that accurately process billable events without delays, inconsistencies, or data loss.
• Expand and optimize payment platform integrations, including subscription management, usage reporting, invoice workflows, webhook handling, and recovery processes for complex edge cases.
• Build and maintain cloud marketplace integrations by managing reliable data flows between billing systems and major cloud provider entitlement platforms.
• Develop customer-facing usage dashboards and forecasting capabilities that provide clear visibility into consumption, spending, and cost trends.
• Improve billing monitoring, alerts, and notifications to proactively identify anomalies, unexpected usage patterns, and potential customer issues.
• Define architectural patterns, engineering standards, and testing approaches that improve reliability and guide future development.
• Mentor and support other engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

The ideal candidate brings deep backend engineering expertise, strong ownership capabilities, and experience building reliable systems that directly impact business operations and customer experience.

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including significant ownership of production billing, payments, or metering systems.
• Hands-on experience with payment infrastructure, including subscription management, webhooks, usage-based billing, reconciliation processes, and complex failure scenarios.
• Strong proficiency in backend development, with experience in languages such as Go or Java considered a strong advantage.
• Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale, with a strong understanding of reliability, consistency, performance, and failure handling.
• A product-oriented mindset with the ability to understand how technical decisions influence customer trust, pricing accuracy, and business outcomes.
• Staff-level engineering ownership, including the ability to identify systemic challenges, influence technical direction, and elevate engineering practices across teams.
• Experience with cloud marketplace billing platforms, usage-based pricing models, observability technologies, or high-growth SaaS environments is considered a plus.