Billing Systems Architect for AI Inference Infra

Sail Research; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sail is seeking a billing-focused engineer to design and operate the billing for all Sail offerings, from self-serve to enterprise, including routing partners. You will price and package AI infrastructure and build new features like Supercache, while delivering deep observability that ties spend to compute costs for customers and Sail.

You’ll also implement organization identity, permissioning, authentication, and abuse prevention to keep our platform secure and scalable.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with usage-based billing and payments systems.
• Experience owning high-throughput, reliable production systems.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals.
• Product sense and enthusiasm for building user-friendly products.
• Interest in compute and inference economics.
• Eagerness to discuss high-level design decisions and critical pieces.
• Strong interpersonal and technical communication; avoid sloppy prose.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate billing for all of Sail's offerings, across self-serve, enterprise, and routing partners.
• Develop new ways to price and package AI infrastructure, plus billing features like Supercache.
• Build deep observability for spend and revenue, connect revenue to compute costs, and help customers monitor usage.
• Build and maintain organization identity, permissioning, authentication, and abuse prevention.

Skills

Billing systems

Production systems

Distributed systems

Product sense

Compute economics

Agent systems

Communication

Job description

Sail is seeking a billing-focused engineer to design and operate the billing for all Sail offerings, from self-serve to enterprise, including routing partners. You will price and package AI infrastructure and build new features like Supercache, while delivering deep observability that ties spend to compute costs for customers and Sail.

You’ll also implement organization identity, permissioning, authentication, and abuse prevention to keep our platform secure and scalable.