Principal Billing Systems Engineer

Posted 11 Days Ago
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Austin, TX
Hybrid
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Helping Build a Better Internet
The Role
Lead a team to develop and maintain critical billing systems using Go and a microservices architecture, ensuring financial accuracy and operational excellence.
Summary Generated by Built In
Available Locations: Austin Texas About the department
Cloudflare's Billing Engineering Team is at the heart of every product launch, campaign, and initiative that Cloudflare undertakes. We build and maintain critical systems for billing, payments, usage metering, aggregation, invoicing and revenue recognition - powering billions in revenue and serving millions of customers.
Currently we're rebuilding our entire billing platform, designing a metering and aggregation layer that scales effortlessly while ensuring financial accuracy. This is high-impact, high-stakes work that touches all Cloudflare's cutting-edge products like AI, Zero Trust, Edge Compute, Bot Management, DDoS Protection, etc.
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of talented, collaborative engineers working across Cloudflare's ecosystem. You'll navigate multiple high-profile projects, foster a culture of proactive communication and continuous learning, and drive technical excellence.
If you thrive on solving hard challenges at the intersection of financial infrastructure and distributed systems, this is your opportunity to make a massive impact while growing with us.
What you'll do
We are looking for an energetic team-focused engineer who is growth mindset oriented, able to drive their work from inception, requirements definition, technical specification phase, development, testing and go live.
You will work on a range of transactional microservices written in Go. You will be involved in helping to maintain our operational excellence by triaging, solving various inbound tickets related to issues across services billing maintains. As you grow within the team you will be given opportunities to own bigger initiatives and lead projects from start to finish solo or as part of a smaller team.
Our tech stack is a modern container-based microservice architecture. Technologies we use include Docker, Go (golang), PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, Temporal and the usual Unix/Linux tools and workflows. We strive to build reliable, fault tolerant systems that can operate at Cloudflare's scale.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
  • BS+ in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years professional experience as a developer/engineer
  • Knowledge of Golang or desire to learn it
  • Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and service security
  • Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
  • Experience with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environment
  • Experience implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems/microservices
  • Familiarity with event driven architecture
  • Experience with API tooling and standards (Swagger/OpenAPI, OAuth/JWT)
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

Top Skills

Docker
Go
Kafka
Kubernetes
Postgres
Redis
Unix/Linux
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
4,400 Employees
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.

Why Work With Us

Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven, and our team is energized by a collaborative, creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.

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