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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Billing

San Francisco, California, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeSenior$175,000–$210,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Crusoe is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Billing to design, build, and scale their AI infrastructure's billing platform. This role is crucial for ensuring accurate, transparent, and reliable billing for customers, covering metering, pricing, invoicing, and payments. The engineer will own critical systems end-to-end, focusing on reliability, scalability, and customer understanding. Responsibilities include developing real-time and batch processing pipelines, building customer-facing APIs, partnering with Finance and Product teams, and improving system observability and reconciliation. The role also involves mentoring engineers and contributing to a strong engineering culture. Requires 5+ years of backend development experience with languages like Go, Java, Rust, or C++, and expertise in distributed systems, data processing, and billing systems.

Crusoe is on a mission
*to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence*
. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our Billing team to design, build, and scale Crusoe Cloud’s billing platform. This role sits within the Cloud Customer Experience (CCX) organization and is critical to enabling accurate, transparent, and reliable billing for our customers.
You will own core billing systems end-to-end, from metering and pricing to invoicing and payments, ensuring they are highly reliable, scalable, and easy to understand. This role requires deep collaboration with Product, Finance, Customer Success, and other engineering teams to deliver a seamless and trustworthy billing experience.
What You’ll Be Working On:

  • Own Critical Systems: Design and operate highly reliable billing services that directly impact revenue and customer trust.
  • Drive Accuracy & Transparency: Build systems that ensure customers can clearly understand their usage and charges.
  • Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Finance, Product, Customer Success, and Support teams to align on requirements and deliver robust solutions.
  • Enable New Business Models: Implement flexible pricing and billing capabilities to support evolving cloud offerings.
  • Improve Reliability: Build safeguards, validation systems, and reconciliation workflows to prevent and detect billing discrepancies.
  • Mentor and Influence: Lead design discussions, review code, and raise the technical bar across the team.
  • Mentor and Lead: Guide engineers through design reviews and implementation, contributing to a strong engineering culture.
  • Design and build scalable billing systems, including usage metering, pricing models, invoicing, and payment integrations.
  • Ensure accuracy, reliability, and auditability of all billing-related data and workflows.
  • Develop real-time and batch processing pipelines for usage tracking and cost calculation.
  • Build APIs and services that provide customers with clear, transparent insights into their usage and spend.
  • Partner with Finance and Product teams to support new pricing models, product launches, and revenue workflows.
  • Improve system observability, reconciliation processes, and error handling to ensure billing correctness.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions that support long-term scalability and flexibility of the billing platform..
  • Mentor engineers, enhance hiring practices, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture.

You Will Thrive In This Role If You Have:

  • Billing Systems Experience: Experience building or working on billing, payments, metering, or financial systems (or similarly complex, high-integrity data systems).
  • Strong Ownership Mindset: Ability to own complex systems end-to-end, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Professional Experience: 5+ years of software development experience, including backend development with languages such as Go, Java, Rust, or C++.
  • Distributed Systems Expertise: Experience designing and operating scalable, fault-tolerant systems with strong data consistency guarantees.
  • Data & Processing Knowledge: Familiarity with real-time and batch data processing, event-driven architectures, and data modeling for financial systems.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to work closely with Product, Finance, and non-technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Attention to Detail: Strong focus on data accuracy, edge cases, and building systems that handle financial correctness.
  • Observability & Reliability: Experience building systems with strong monitoring, alerting, and debugging capabilities.
  • Mentorship: Experience guiding engineers and contributing to a culture of engineering excellence.
  • Communication Skills: Ability to clearly explain complex systems and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits:

  • Industry competitive pay
  • Restricted Stock Units in a fast-growing, well-funded technology company
  • Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
  • Employer contributions to HSA accounts
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • Teladoc
  • 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Subscription to the Calm app
  • MetLife Legal
  • Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per pay period

Compensation Range
Compensation will be paid in the range of $175,000 - $210,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.

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