192K–240K CAD / year
Billing Engineer
BackendRemote — Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Published on 2026-11-05
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About this role
Build and maintain billing systems supporting subscriptions and usage-based pricing. Integrate third-party billing platforms and partner with product, finance, sales, and support teams to ensure accurate billing and revenue reporting.
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
GoSQLStripeMetronomeOrbZuora
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, and document billing software components
- Integrate third-party billing platforms
- Develop metering, pricing, and rating logic
- Ensure accurate usage tracking and reporting
- Maintain billing system availability and data integrity
- Automate billing, reconciliation, and reporting tasks
- Establish billing pipeline observability, alerting, and error handling
- Lead billing incident response and root-cause analysis
What we're looking for
- Backend engineering experience focused on billing, payments, or financial systems
- Knowledge of SaaS subscriptions, usage-based pricing, proration, discounts, and entitlements
- Experience integrating billing platforms or building 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 skills, or production experience in another language and willingness to work with Go
- Strong communication skills and flexibility in a startup environment
Nice to have
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers
Benefits
- Equity incentive plan
- Remote-first work and coworking support
- Employer retirement contributions matching up to 0.75% of eligible compensation
- $1,500 USD annual professional development budget
- Flexible paid time off
- $500 USD home-office setup allowance and monthly internet reimbursement
- Paid parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Health, vision, and dental coverage