Billing Systems Engineer - Open Cloud Storage

Backblaze External Website; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Backblaze is seeking a Software Engineer for Billing & Manageability to own and evolve our next-generation billing platform. You’ll design APIs, data pipelines, and telemetry to connect billing with payments, tax, ERP, CRM, and data warehouses, while improving reliability across services.

You will work on server-side Java in a distributed environment, build customer-facing telemetry, and contribute to design discussions in a remote team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of server-side Java programming experience.
• Experience building distributed systems with design, testing, and rollout.
• Proactive communication in a remote environment.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor).
• Experience with third-party billing platforms (Orb, Chargebee, Metronome, Stripe Billing, or similar).
• Experience with usage-based or metered billing models.
• API design and integration experience.
• Agile and Scrum experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve a state-of-the-art billing system supporting usage-based, subscription, and hybrid models across Backblaze’s product portfolio.
• Design and implement APIs, data pipelines, and event-driven workflows connecting billing to payments, tax, ERP, CRM, and data warehouse systems.
• Instrument services, develop metrics, and define SLIs/SLOs to drive reliability improvements.
• Implement customer-facing product telemetry features for Backblaze Object Storage to expose usage and cost visibility to customers.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to clear, well-reasoned design documents.
• Write high-quality, well-tested server-side code in a distributed systems environment.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

APIs

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Orb

Chargebee

Metronome

Stripe Billing

Job description

Backblaze is seeking a Software Engineer for Billing & Manageability to own and evolve our next-generation billing platform. You’ll design APIs, data pipelines, and telemetry to connect billing with payments, tax, ERP, CRM, and data warehouses, while improving reliability across services.

You will work on server-side Java in a distributed environment, build customer-facing telemetry, and contribute to design discussions in a remote team.