Senior Director of Engineering, Billing Platform

Cloudflare, Inc

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TXLisboa, Lisboa, PortugalLondon, United KingdomNew York, NYSan Francisco, CAWashington, DC
Salary
$273,000–$341,000 / yr
Posted
64 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Director of Engineering, Billing Platform

The Senior Director of Engineering, Billing Platform leads the engineering organization responsible for the billing platform and quote-to-cash systems. This leader manages a distributed organization of engineering managers and technical leaders to own the technical strategy, organizational design, and operational health of systems supporting usage-based billing, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, entitlements, tax, and financial reconciliation. The role involves building durable engineering systems that improve correctness, scalability, and auditability while strengthening financial data integrity across ERP, CRM, and data warehouse systems. Key requirements include expertise in distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, APIs, and data pipelines. Candidates must demonstrate experience with payment processors like Stripe, Salesforce, and tax engines. The work solves complex problems regarding product monetization, revenue operations, and maintaining customer trust within a high-growth SaaS environment.

What you'll do

  • Own the multi-year engineering strategy, investment plan, and execution roadmap for the billing platform and quote-to-cash systems.
  • Lead and develop a distributed organization of engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and product engineering teams.
  • Drive platform architecture to improve correctness, scalability, reliability, auditability, and speed of product launch.
  • Build systems supporting usage-based billing, subscriptions, enterprise contracts, payments, tax, and customer lifecycle changes.
  • Strengthen financial data integrity across billing, payments, revenue recognition, ERP, CRM, and data warehouse systems.
  • Improve reconciliation, observability, alerting, SLOs, and incident response for billing-critical services.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate ambiguous business requirements into durable engineering systems.
  • Represent billing engineering in executive forums with clear tradeoffs, delivery status, risks, and investment recommendations.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience (preferred).
  • 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams (preferred).
  • 3+ years of experience directly managing engineering managers (preferred).
  • Experience leading billing, payments, fintech, commerce, or quote-to-cash systems (preferred).
  • Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, SaaS platforms, service-oriented architectures, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure (preferred).
  • Experience with usage-based billing, subscriptions, payments, taxation, or revenue reconciliation (preferred).
  • Experience with platforms like Stripe, Salesforce, ERP systems, or tax engines (preferred).
  • Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws.

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