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Principal Systems Engineer - Billing

Cloudflare is a global infrastructure company building one of the world’s largest networks to protect and accelerate Internet properties. The Billing Engineering team builds and maintains critical financial systems including billing, payments, usage metering, aggregation, invoicing and revenue recognition. The Principal Systems Engineer will lead engineering efforts across this high-impact domain, driving architecture, owning complex projects, mentoring others, and ensuring operational and financial correctness at scale.

Skills

  • Golang (or strong desire to learn and adopt)
  • Microservices architecture and container-based deployments
  • RESTful APIs, OAuth/JWT and API tooling (OpenAPI/Swagger)
  • SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL)
  • Event-driven systems and messaging (Kafka)
  • Kubernetes, Docker and Unix/Linux environments
  • Caching and data stores (Redis)
  • Workflow/orchestration systems (Temporal)
  • Designing secure, highly-available distributed systems
  • Strong communication and cross-team collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Lead and deliver complex projects across the billing stack from requirements through production
  • Design and implement transactional microservices and metering/aggregation layers
  • Maintain operational excellence: triage, debug, and resolve incidents and on-call responsibilities
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, finance, SRE and other engineering teams
  • Mentor and grow engineers; promote best practices and code quality
  • Ensure financial accuracy, security, and reliability in billing-related systems
  • Drive technical decisions for scalability, availability and fault tolerance

Education

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience (preferred)

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity compensation
  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
  • Health, dental and vision benefits
  • Generous paid time off and parental leave
  • Professional development and learning opportunities
  • 401(k) or regional equivalent retirement plans
  • Inclusive, mission-driven culture and employee resource programs
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November 7, 2025
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