Cloudflare's Billing Engineering Team is seeking a Principal Billing Systems Engineer to join their critical infrastructure team. This role sits at the heart of Cloudflare's revenue operations, working on systems that handle billions in revenue and serve millions of customers. The team is currently undertaking an ambitious project to rebuild their entire billing platform, focusing on creating a scalable metering and aggregation layer while maintaining financial accuracy.
The position offers an opportunity to work with cutting-edge products across AI, Zero Trust, Edge Compute, Bot Management, and DDoS Protection. You'll be working with a modern tech stack including Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Kubernetes in a container-based microservice architecture. The role involves building and maintaining critical systems for billing, payments, usage metering, aggregation, invoicing and revenue recognition.
As a Principal Engineer, you'll be expected to drive work from inception through requirements definition, technical specification, development, testing, and deployment. The role requires someone with strong technical expertise in distributed systems and financial infrastructure, combined with excellent problem-solving abilities and communication skills.
Cloudflare offers a unique opportunity to work on large-scale systems that directly impact the company's bottom line while contributing to their mission of helping build a better Internet. The company is known for its innovative culture and commitment to projects like Project Galileo, the Athenian Project, and 1.1.1.1 that protect free expression and privacy online.
This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges at scale, wants to work with modern technologies, and is interested in the intersection of financial systems and distributed computing.