Senior Director of Engineering, Billing Platform

Cloudflare, Inc

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TXLondon, United KingdomLisbon, PortugalSan Francisco, CANew York, NYSeattle, WA
Salary
$273,000–$341,000 / yr
Posted
18 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $238k
This role $307k
$166k most similar roles pay here $360k

This role pays more than 89% of similar roles. Most pay $202,482–$274,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $307k versus about $238k for comparable roles.

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About Cloudflare, Inc

Cloudflare is a prominent cloud services and security company that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust security services to millions of internet properties.

Cloudflare, Inc currently has 190 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Director of Engineering, Billing Platform

As the Senior Director of Engineering, Billing Platform, you will lead a multi-team engineering organization responsible for the company's critical billing platform and quote-to-cash systems. You will own the technical strategy, organizational design, and execution roadmap for infrastructure supporting usage-based billing, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, tax, and customer lifecycle management. The role requires managing managers to ensure high standards of correctness, reliability, and auditability across distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and data pipelines. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners in Finance, Legal, and Sales to translate complex requirements into durable engineering solutions. Key technical competencies include experience with payment processors like Stripe, CRM systems like Salesforce, ERP systems, and cloud-native infrastructure. This role solves the fundamental challenge of maintaining financial integrity and seamless monetization for a large-scale internet service provider's diverse product ecosystem.

What does a Engineering Director earn?

Median $307000 from 31 postings across 22 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop and execute the multi-year engineering strategy and investment roadmap for the billing platform and quote-to-cash systems.
  • Lead a distributed organization of managers and technical leaders to ensure high standards of execution and accountability.
  • Design scalable architecture to support usage-based billing, subscriptions, payments, tax, and customer lifecycle management.
  • Ensure financial data integrity across internal systems including ERP, CRM, payment processors, and revenue reporting tools.
  • Improve operational reliability through enhanced observability, alerting, incident response, and defined service level objectives.
  • Translate complex business requirements from Finance, Legal, and Sales into durable engineering solutions.
  • Make strategic "build vs. buy" decisions regarding third-party integrations for payments, tax engines, and revenue platforms.
  • Represent the billing organization in executive forums to communicate risks, progress, and investment recommendations.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 15+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Must have 7+ years leading engineering teams and 3+ years directly managing engineering managers.
  • Experience leading billing, payments, fintech, financial platforms, or quote-to-cash systems where correctness is mandatory.
  • Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, SaaS platforms, service-oriented architectures, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Proven ability to define and execute a multi-year platform strategy across multiple teams and executive stakeholders.
  • Experience with usage-based billing, subscription management, invoicing, payments, tax, and revenue data.
  • Familiarity with platforms such as Stripe, Salesforce, ERP systems, and other payment or CRM tools.
  • Export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

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