Staff Engineer - Monetization
Core
Design and operate highly available, scalable billing infrastructure, usage APIs, and backend services that translate customer network activity into commercial relationships.
Role type
Staff Backend Software Engineer (Monetization)
Builds
Billing infrastructure, usage APIs, usage reporting, and orderability systems for Fastly's edge cloud platform.
Domain
Cloud infrastructure / Monetization / Financial systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems design, data pipeline architecture, relational and non-relational storage (MySQL, BigTable, BigQuery, Dynamo, Cassandra), pub/sub message queues (NSQ, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, Kinesis), AI coding agents, RESTful API design, Go development, cloud technologies
Preferred skills
Billing or finance systems experience, expert RESTful API design, Go development, cloud technologies
Responsibilities
Design and ship billing infrastructure and usage APIs, develop architecture documents for new systems, evolve tools and pipelines for billing and reporting, mentor engineers through code review and pairing, participate in on-call rotation
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with significant mentorship and architectural leadership