Software Engineer, Billing (all levels)

About the role

We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain systems that ensure customers are billed accurately, reliably, and transparently as we scale.
• Collaborate with Finance, Product, and Customer Experience teams to integrate third-party platforms, evolve our usage-based billing systems, and deliver the infrastructure that supports Render’s growing business model.
• Work with large-scale databases and data pipelines to capture, transform, and reconcile usage data.
• Maintain and monitor third-party billing systems (e.g., Orb, Metronome, or similar).
• Contribute to architectural decisions about how billing integrates with the broader Render platform.
• Help shape internal processes, documentation, and best practices for billing operations.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience building or operating usage-based billing systems.
• Hands-on experience integrating and working with third-party billing systems such as Orb, Metronome, Stripe, or similar platforms.
• Strong expertise in Go and production-grade databases (SQL or NoSQL).
• Detail-oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability in mission-critical systems.
• Pragmatism and problem-solving skills to balance accuracy, scalability, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a high-growth startup or scaling environment.
• Familiarity with financial reconciliation and reporting processes.
• Background in distributed systems or event-driven architectures.
• Willingness to mentor others and help scale Render’s engineering culture.

Skills

• Technical depth in usage-based billing systems.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience with Go and production-grade databases.
• Attention to detail and strong problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with financial reconciliation and reporting processes.
• Experience with distributed systems or event-driven architectures.
• Willingness to mentor others and help scale Render’s engineering culture.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
• FSAs and HSAs are available as well.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.