The opportunity
The Billing team sits at the intersection of product, finance, and infrastructure. They're responsible for ensuring every observable event—errors, logs, traces, tokens—gets accurately measured, priced, and billed.
What you'll do
Strategic Planning & Roadmap: Define and drive the team's roadmap. Align team goals with organizational objectives and contribute to the overall platform strategy.
Technical Guidance & Operational Excellence: Provide technical leadership and guidance on complex distributed systems and design. Ensure the team is proactively identifying areas for improvement.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner closely with business and technical teams to translate business goals into actionable objectives and scalable solutions.
Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented engineers, including Staff-level engineers. Build a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation within the team.
Communication & Reporting: Effectively communicate team progress, challenges, and strategic direction to senior leadership, stakeholders, and the wider organization. Represent the team's work internally and externally, including through blog posts and presentations.
Are a product and platform-minded leader who enjoys distributed systems and: software architecture problems. You regard Product and Design as your peers, seeking collaboration when determining product outcomes and technical priorities for the team. You’re comfortable managing delivery and shaping direction.
What they're looking for
- Experience working on a customer-facing product, ideally within developer: tools or high-traffic product surfaces.
- Experience owning a product area end-to-end, from shipping new features: through long-term maintenance and iteration.
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to articulate technical: concepts and tradeoffs clearly and succinctly.
- Experience with scoping work, performing resource allocation, and: establishing engineering milestones and delivery dates.
- + years professional engineering experience, preferably with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript or similar.
- + years of engineering management experience.
