Senior Director of Engineering, Billing Platform

CloudFlare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 273,000 - 341,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Equity

Flexible PTO

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering for its Billing Platform to lead a multi-team engineering organization responsible for usage-based billing, subscriptions, invoicing, and payments. You will own the technical strategy, architecture, and operational health, partnering with Product, Finance, and Legal to deliver trusted, scalable solutions.

The role requires 15+ years in software engineering and a track record of coaching managers, with a focus on correctness, auditability,

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with 7+ years leading engineering teams
• Experience leading billing, payments, fintech, or other audit-critical platforms
• Strong judgment in distributed systems, SaaS, APIs, and data pipelines
• Proven ability to define and execute multi-year platform strategy across teams
• Experience with usage-based billing, invoicing, payments, and tax handling
• Familiarity with Stripe, Salesforce, ERP, tax engines, and BI tools

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year engineering strategy and execution roadmap for billing platform
• Lead a distributed organization of engineering managers and tech leaders
• Coach managers and strengthen technical leadership and planning
• Drive architecture improving correctness, scalability, and reliability
• Build systems for usage-based billing, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, and entitlements
• Strengthen financial data integrity across billing, revenue and ERP systems
• Improve observability, SLOs, incident response, and operational controls
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into durable systems
• Make build/buy decisions across billing, payment, tax, ERP, and CRM platforms
• Represent billing engineering in executive forums with clear tradeoffs and status

Skills

Strategic leadership

Distributed systems

Executive collaboration

AI fluency

Mentoring managers

Cloud/SaaS

Tools

Stripe

Salesforce

ERP systems

CRM systems

Tax engines

Data warehouses

Job description

Austin, TX, United States

Position Title: Senior Director of Engineering, Billing Platform

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If youre the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, youll fit right in.

Locations: Austin, London, Lisbon, SF, NYC, and Seattle

About the Role

Cloudflare's billing platform is a critical part of how customers buy, adopt, and expand across Cloudflare's products. It sits at the intersection of product monetization, customer experience, financial correctness, revenue operations, and enterprise trust.

We are hiring a Senior Director, Engineering to lead the engineering organization responsible for Cloudflare's billing platform and adjacent quote-to-cash systems. This leader will own the technical strategy, organizational design, execution model, and operational health of the systems that support usage-based billing, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, entitlements, tax, revenue data, customer account lifecycle, and financial reconciliation.

This is a senior director-level role for someone who has led managers before and can scale a multi-team platform organization where correctness, reliability, auditability, and customer trust are mandatory. The right leader will combine strong engineering judgment, manager-of-managers leadership, and executive-level partnership across Product, Finance, Revenue Operations, Legal, Sales, Support, and external platform vendors.

What You'll Do

• Own the multi-year engineering strategy, investment plan, and execution roadmap for Cloudflare's billing platform and quote-to-cash integrations.
• Lead and develop a distributed organization of engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and product engineering teams.
• Build the next layer of leadership by coaching managers, strengthening technical leadership, and improving planning, accountability, and execution predictability.
• Drive platform architecture that improves correctness, scalability, reliability, auditability, and speed of product launch.
• Build systems that support usage-based billing, subscriptions, enterprise contracts, self-serve purchasing, partner and reseller motions, invoicing, payments, credits, refunds, adjustments, entitlements, tax, and customer lifecycle changes.
• Strengthen financial data integrity across billing, payments, revenue recognition, ERP, CRM, data warehouse, tax, and reporting systems.
• Improve reconciliation, observability, alerting, SLOs, incident response, and operational controls for billing-critical services.
• Partner with Product, Finance, Revenue Operations, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Sales, and Support to turn ambiguous business requirements into durable engineering systems.
• Make pragmatic build, buy, and integrate decisions across billing, payment processing, tax, ERP, CRM, entitlement, and revenue platforms.
• Represent billing engineering in executive forums with clear tradeoffs, delivery status, risks, and investment recommendations.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 7+ years leading engineering teams and 3+ years directly managing engineering managers.
• Experience leading billing, payments, fintech, financial platforms, commerce platforms, quote-to-cash systems, or other systems where correctness and auditability are mandatory.
• Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, SaaS platforms, service-oriented architectures, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Proven ability to define and execute a multi-year platform strategy across multiple teams, business functions, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience with usage-based billing, subscription billing, metering, invoicing, payments, credits, refunds, disputes, taxation, entitlement management, revenue data, or reconciliation.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Stripe or other payment processors, Salesforce or other CRM systems, ERP systems, tax engines, revenue recognition systems, data warehouses, and BI/reporting tools.
• Track record improving operational excellence for critical systems through SLOs, observability, incident response, change control, migrations, reconciliation, and customer-impact reduction.
• Ability to translate complex technical, financial, and organizational tradeoffs into clear decisions for executive, finance, product, and engineering audiences.
• Experience recruiting, coaching, and retaining strong engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
• High standards for engineering quality, accountability, documentation, customer empathy, and cross-functional follow-through.
• Practical AI fluency: uses AI tools to accelerate engineering work, improve operating leverage, and raise the team's quality bar without weakening ownership or judgment.

Bonus Points

• Experience modernizing or replacing legacy billing, payments, ERP, CRM, tax, entitlement, or revenue systems in a public company or high-growth SaaS business.
• Experience supporting enterprise contracts, reseller or partner billing, marketplace billing, multi-currency billing, global taxation, or public-sector billing requirements.
• Experience with internet-scale SaaS, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, security products, or consumption-based monetization.
• Experience building platforms that support product-led growth and enterprise sales motions at the same time.
• Experience leading financial-systems organizations through scale, transformation, and cross-functional operating model changes.
• Experience with financial controls, SOC 2, PCI, privacy, fraud prevention, audit support, or regulated financial workflows.
• Experience leading large data migrations or phased platform transformations without interrupting revenue operations or customer billing.
• Strong product sense around pricing flexibility, customer transparency, billing explainability, and self-service administration.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Seattle/NYC/California based hires – Estimated annual salary of: $273,000 - $341,000
• For SF/Bay Area based hires – Estimated annual salary of: $286,000 - $258,000
• For Lisbon based hires – Estimated annual salary of: 146,000 - 183,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

Were not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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