Stripe · 11 hours ago
Staff Engineer, Usage Based Billing
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years expStripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, and they are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to guide their Usage-Based Billing product to General Availability. The role involves architecting high-throughput metering systems, improving product stability, and mentoring senior engineers while ensuring a straightforward developer experience for users.
FinanceFinTechMobile PaymentsSaaS
Responsibilities
Lead technical initiatives to move Usage-Based Billing from a high-touch pilot phase to a robust, General Availability product. You will identify improvements that influence core product stability
Embed with engineering teams at major AI companies to build high-leverage capabilities. You will solve their immediate scaling issues and translate those fixes into long-term product features
Design high-throughput ingestion systems for high cardinality data. The backend must handle the massive usage spikes common in GenAI models
Develop customization frameworks and public APIs. As we scale, interfaces must remain usable for developers building complex financial workflows
Translate ambiguous user needs into technical solutions. You will provide feedback to core product teams to shape the future of Stripe’s Revenue & Financial Automation offerings
Mentor senior engineers and improve engineering standards and tooling within the team
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in software development roles
A mix of backend experience (scaling, concurrency, distributed data) and product instincts (API design, user empathy, workflow definition)
Experience working in complex distributed systems with significant scale ('billions of events')
Comfortable working directly with external engineering teams. You can communicate complex technical topics clearly
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Java, Ruby, Python) and experience with big data technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink)
Experience as a technical lead defining roadmaps for complex projects that span multiple teams
Preferred
Experience launching a complex technical product to General Availability (GA)
Experience building and operating high-scale, real-time data processing systems
Familiarity with the specific growth patterns and technical needs of AI companies
Track record of evolving internal platforms into public-facing products
Company
Stripe
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.44BKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementThrive CapitalFounders Fund
2025-02-27Secondary Market
2024-04-12Secondary Market· $694.16M
2024-03-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
David Singleton
CTO
Steffan Tomlinson
CFO
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