Principal Billing Systems Engineer

About Us

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware installing software or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network which gets smarter with every request. As a result they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

Available Locations : Austin Texas

About the department

Cloudflares 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 were 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 Cloudflares cutting-edge products like AI Zero Trust Edge Compute Bot Management DDoS Protection etc.

As a Senior Engineering Manager youll lead a team of talented collaborative engineers working across Cloudflares ecosystem. Youll 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 youll 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 Cloudflares 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

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo : Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers at no cost.

Athenian Project : In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their or any other persons perceived or actual race color religion sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation national origin ancestry citizenship age physical or mental disability medical condition family care status or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA / Veterans / Disabled Employer.

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Required Experience :

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Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1