143K–179K USD / year
Billing Engineer
BackendRemote — United States
Published on 2026-11-05
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About this role
Build and maintain Tailscale’s billing systems, integrations, and usage-based pricing capabilities. The role spans the product lifecycle, from technical design and implementation to operational support and billing strategy.
About the company
Tailscale builds a zero-config mesh VPN on WireGuard so teams can securely connect devices, servers, and cloud resources without traditional VPN complexity.
Stack
GoStripeMetronomeOrbZuoraSQL
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, and document billing software components
- Integrate with third-party billing platforms
- Develop metering, pricing, and rating logic for subscription and usage-based billing
- Ensure accurate usage tracking, reporting, and data integrity
- Build automation for recurring billing, reconciliation, and reporting
- Establish observability and lead incident response and root-cause analysis
- Collaborate with product, sales, finance, support, and engineering on billing requirements
What we're looking for
- Backend software engineering experience focused on billing, payments, or financial systems
- Knowledge of SaaS billing models, including subscriptions, usage pricing, proration, discounts, and entitlements
- Experience with billing platforms or custom billing systems
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Proficiency in SQL and financial or usage data modeling
- Experience building or integrating APIs
- Strong Go proficiency, or production coding experience in another language and willingness to work with Go
- Strong communication skills and comfort working in a dynamic, remote startup
Benefits
- Equity incentive plan
- Health, vision, and dental coverage with no waiting period
- Employer retirement match up to 0.75% of eligible compensation
- Remote-first work and a corporate coworking program
- Annual company retreat and team off-sites
- $1,500 annual professional development budget
- Flexible paid time off
- Company-provided laptop, monthly internet reimbursement, and $500 home-office budget