Software Engineer, Monetization Data Systems

About the Team

The Monetization Data Systems team builds the trusted data and product systems that power how the company develops measures and improves monetization products. We bring together product usage pricing billing ads payments and financial data to help Product Engineering Finance and GTM teams make better decisions and deliver reliable customer experiences.

We work at the intersection of data engineering product engineering platform engineering Finance and GTM. Our goal is to turn complex monetization and financial data into accurate explainable and timely data products while building systems that scale with the growth and complexity of the business.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of our monetization data platform. You will own high-impact platform systems end to end from architecture and implementation through testing deployment observability and ongoing operation.

This is a hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys solving ambiguous customer and business problems designing durable systems and partnering closely with Product Data Finance Accounting and GTM. You will help define technical direction raise the engineering bar and turn monetization opportunities into reliable scalable product experiences and platform capabilities.

In this role you will:

• Design improve and operate reliable scalable backend services that power pricing billing ads payments entitlements and other monetization platform capabilities.

• Own the architecture and implementation of critical workflows relevant to monetization data data contracts and integrations across product and business systems.

• Establish strong guarantees for correctness availability security performance reconciliation and auditability across business-critical systems.

• Build reusable platform capabilities and developer tools that enable product teams to launch measure and iterate on monetization products quickly and safely.

• Partner with Product Design Data Finance Accounting and GTM teams to translate customer and business needs into robust technical solutions.

• Lead the technical design and delivery of complex cross-functional projects using clear system designs and RFCs to align partners before implementation and making sound tradeoffs among product velocity scalability reliability and maintainability.

• Improve the observability and operational excellence of critical services including monitoring incident response root-cause analysis capacity planning and long-term remediation.

• Mentor other engineers contribute to architecture and code reviews write clear documentation and share knowledge across teams to elevate the broader engineering organization.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Possess a minimum of 7 years of professional software engineering experience with deep experience building and operating production software systems backend services or distributed systems at scale.

• Are highly proficient in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Go Java Python Rust or C with strong computer science fundamentals.

• Have strong fundamentals in API design data modeling storage systems distributed systems and event-driven architecture.

• Have designed systems with rigorous correctness reliability observability security privacy or access-control requirements.

• Can collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify needs navigate ambiguity and drive progress from problem definition through delivery.

• Bring a product-oriented mindset and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners translating customer and business problems into simple scalable system designs.

• Care deeply about correctness and operational reliability while maintaining a practical bias toward delivering customer and business value.

• Bring a strong sense of engineering excellence using clear thinking sound judgment and a design-before-implementation approach to create maintainable systems.

• Command strong sense of engineering excellence contribute to a design-before-implementation approach with clear documentation and knowledge sharing across teams to elevate the broader engineering organization.

Nice to have:

• Experience with monetization pricing billing ads payments entitlements subscriptions or other financial products.

• Familiarity with financial correctness reconciliation compliance or audit requirements.

• Experience with high-scale distributed systems transactional workflows event streaming or payment infrastructure.

• Experience building internal platforms shared frameworks APIs or developer tooling used by other engineering teams.

• Monetization or finance domain experience is helpful but not required. We value strong software engineering judgment systems thinking and the ability to learn a complex domain quickly.

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