Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Billing

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Join the Cloud Billing Team

As MongoDB's Cloud business grows, so does its reliance on the Cloud Billing Platform team. This team has the mission critical task of metering and billing for usage of our ever-increasing suite of products. It's a constantly evolving technical challenge to meet the demanding needs of the business as our customer base expands rapidly across the globe. Our talented engineers are technically proficient, obsessed with code quality, rigorous about testing and correctness, and skilled at communicating with stakeholders representing many different personas within the company.

Responsibilities:

• Collect and aggregate metering data from a variety of internal and external services
• Calculate and generate daily customer bills
• Continuously improve the customer experience
• Continuously improve and scale our backend systems
• Ingest and aggregate detailed usage data from the major Cloud providers (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)
• Integrate with our internal data lake to support the business analytics needs of the Finance team
• Integrate with internal business systems to support the Sales, Marketing, and Accounting teams

Working Model:

We are a mix of local engineers with flexible work arrangements based in New York and remote engineers based in US East Coast time zones.

Position Expectations:

We are looking for someone with deep experience in Cloud technologies who can partner with the Director of Cloud Billing to guide Cloud Billing into its next phase of growth. This person should be a beacon of technical excellence within the Cloud Billing teams, serving as a source of inspiration for the teams to learn from and lean on and modeling our core values and leadership principles. In this role, you will:

• Become an expert in our systems, tools and processes
• Partner with Director of Cloud Billing to create and execute on the technical vision and roadmap for the future of Cloud Billing
• Advocate for new tools and technologies needed to drive the roadmap forward with your peers, product managers, and engineering leadership
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve our systems, tools and processes
• Serve as the technical lead for complex features and technical projects (e.g., creating a next generation distributed architecture for a legacy code base, enhancing observability, increasing resilience, meeting SLAs at rapidly increasing scale,)
• Foster the professional growth of the team through mentorship, sharing industry knowledge and experience, and providing architectural guidance
• Contribute to the codebase through your own coding projects and conducting ardent code reviews

You have: 

• Deep experience building and maintaining large scale systems. Billing and/or payments experience is a plus.
• Extensive technical leadership experience, with a proven track record of autonomously delivering large, complex projects
• 10+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale, mission critical, distributed systems
• Deep understanding of the Java language, the JVM, and its ecosystem
• Experience using non-relational (e.g., MongoDB) or relational databases at scale
• Expertise with Cloud platform services (e.g., AWS) and modern communication protocols (eg, gRPC)
• Superb written and verbal communication skills
• Equally comfortable communicating and collaborating with engineering leaders, technical experts and non-technical stakeholders across business units

Nice to Haves:

• Experience decomposing a monolithic application into microservices
• Experience developing, operating and optimizing intensive, data-driven applications with MongoDB
• Experience deploying applications with container orchestration systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)

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Last updated on Aug 21, 2024