Staff Product Engineer - Backend (Go & Java)

## About the Role We are looking for a Staff Product Engineer (Backend) to lead the architectural vision of our backend, joining one of our groundbreaking teams: the RevOps team, responsible for architecting our usage-based billing system (handling complex metering) and automating the flow of data between our product, Stripe, cloud marketplaces and internal reporting systems, among other things. You won't just write code; you will own the technical roadmap, drive economic efficiency in our data infrastructure, and mentor a team of brilliant engineers. ## The Challenge You'll Tackle - Turn usage into revenue. We charge based on data, which means we need rock-solid metering. You'll build the systems that count every event, sync it with payment providers, and ensure invoices are accurate down to the cent. - Drive reliability and risk management. You will own the reliability of the platform, proactively identifying risks before they become incidents. You'll foster a security-first culture and ensure our monitoring efforts are world-class. - Provide mentorship and improve the process. You will define the standards for code quality, testing, and observability. You act as a force multiplier—mentoring others, reviewing PRDs to ensure technical feasibility, and simplifying complex technical designs to align with product goals. ## What Success Looks Like (and How You'll Get There) - Within 1 week, you'll have shipped your first piece of production ready code. - Within 3 months, you'll extend our billing system and provide more transparency into usage and help our customers to maintain full control over observability cost. - Within 6 months, you'll establish new architectural patterns (Go) in our billing solution. You will be actively mentoring engineers across the organization, helping them level up their understanding of our billing architecture and integration with marketplace and CRM tools. - Within 12 months, you will be a technical authority for our backend strategy, having successfully guided the team through major scaling challenges. You'll have played a key role in shaping the product roadmap by bridging the gap between technical constraints and customer needs. ## We're looking for someone who: - Has experience with billing systems or usage-based pricing models (Stripe API experience is a huge plus). - Has deep architectural expertise in building and scaling distributed backend systems using Go. You understand the trade-offs of different patterns and can explain them clearly. Java knowledge is a nice extra! - Expertly leverages AI and agentic coding tools to accelerate development, applying deep technical judgment to verify, refine, and own the final output. - Understands that data accuracy is everything when money is involved. You test thoroughly because you know a bug here affects the bottom line. - Has a "product mindset" for internal tools. You believe the tools our employees use should be just as polished as the ones our customers use. - Is a natural mentor and cultural leader. You have a track record of improving team processes, fostering psychological safety, and elevating the quality of work around you. - Lives and breathes Observability. As an expert in OpenTelemetry and monitoring, you contribute to improving observability not just in our product, but within our own engineering practices. ## Must Haves - Usage-based billing systems - Complex metering - Pricing models - Payment integrations (Stripe) - Distributed systems architecture - Go (strong hands-on) - Scalable, high-reliability systems - Architectural trade-offs - Backend standards & patterns - Security-first mindset - Code quality standards - OpenTelemetry - Monitoring systems - Internal observability practices - Technical roadmap ownership - Product mindset (internal tools) - Mentorship - PRD technical review - AI / agentic coding tools - Technical validation of AI output