Billing Systems Engineer: Usage-based with Stripe

Cursor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is hiring a Software Engineer, Billing to evolve the systems that power how Cursor charges and reconciles revenue across millions of developers and enterprise teams.

You will work across the billing stack, metering pipelines, subscriptions, entitlements, and the ledger, integrating with Stripe to keep invoices accurate and scalable.

This is a deeply technical IC role with onsite work in New York or San Francisco and a strong emphasis on correctness, fault-tolerance, and customer trust.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping a usage-based billing system in production.
• Experience integrating with Stripe and handling webhooks.
• Experience building or maintaining a financial ledger.

Responsibilities

• Implement usage and billing changes end-to-end from UI to invoiced amounts in Stripe.
• Evolve the ledger system as source of truth for balances, credits, and adjustments.
• Integrate with Stripe subscriptions, usage records, invoices, and edge cases.
• Build billing APIs and tooling for product, finance, and customer success teams.
• Improve observability of the billing pipeline and reconciliation.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and finance to ship pricing models.

Skills

Usage-based billing

Tools

Stripe

Job description

Cursor is hiring a Software Engineer, Billing to evolve the systems that power how Cursor charges and reconciles revenue across millions of developers and enterprise teams.

You will work across the billing stack, metering pipelines, subscriptions, entitlements, and the ledger, integrating with Stripe to keep invoices accurate and scalable.

This is a deeply technical IC role with onsite work in New York or San Francisco and a strong emphasis on correctness, fault-tolerance, and customer trust.